SINGLE MARKET ACHIEVEMENTS

Based on a Report Commissioned by AmCham EU

Unemployment

• Lowest unemployment Rate: Czech Republic (3.5%), Germany (3.9%)
• Highest unemployment Rate: Greece (23.0%, Spain (18.4%)

Performance in terms of single market integration (2015)

• Best performance: Malta, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Ireland, Slovakia
• Worst performance: Greece, Cyprus, UK and Italy

Implementation of single market legislation

• Good performance: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia and Sweden
• Poor performance: France, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom

Intra-EU trade and services

• High Performance: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, and Hungary
• Poor performance: UK, Greece

Foreign direct investment

• High: Luxembourg, Ireland, Malta, Netherlands
• Below EU average: Greece, Slovenia, Italy, Latvia, and Romania .