A tool for cross-border policy making

For several years, CENTROPE has been one of the most dynamic, transnational economic areas of the European Union. Located at the interface between the business centres of the “old EU” and the growth areas of Eastern and South-eastern Europe, CENTROPE has the potential of developing into a significant Central European hub. This is illustrated both by spectacular investments made by the automotive industry in recent years as well as the high number of international companies that set up their European headquarters in CENTROPE.

Economic-policy actors now face the main challenge of using the current “window of opportunity” for exploiting the existing potentials. Positioning CENTROPE as an internationally competitive business location for high-quality products and services requires joint cross-border efforts and increasingly harmonised labour-market and economic policies.

The CENTROPE Business & Labour Report provides a valuable basis for cross-border policy-making. The report will be published on an annual basis in the future so that the relevant regional business agencies, enterprises, chambers and federations as well as policy-makers and administrations can monitor the economic development in the transnational economic area of CENTROPE and are able to elaborate concerted labour-market and employment-policy actions.

The present report constitutes a first prototype that will be expanded to include additional features in the next few years. It was prepared in co-operation between research institutes in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia so that the know-how on economic development and data available in and on the region is used in an optimum way and opportunities for harmonising data are jointly exploited.


The CENTROPE Business and Labour Report 2007 as download

CENTROPE_Business_and_Labour_Report_2007 (pdf, 2,703 KB)
CENTROPE_Business_and_Labour_Report_2007_Summary (pdf, 4,324 KB)

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