Archive:Europe 2020 indicators - country profiles
Planned article update: August 2017.
This article is part of a set of statistical articles on the Europe 2020 strategy. it introduces the country articles outlining the situation at national level in relation to the Europe 2020 headline indicators and specific national targets (see list).
Country profiles
This article provides a detailed picture of the situation at national level in relation to the Europe 2020 headline indicators and national targets. The focus lies on summarising the state of play for each Member State in relation to its national targets.
As already mentioned in the introduction, Member States have defined their national targets in their National Reform Programmes (NRPs), reflecting their current situation. The NRPs outline the actions and measures planned in each country to progress towards the national targets. They are supported with country-specific recommendations issued by the European Commission after the assessment of the national programmes. The complete NRPs and country-specific recommendations can be downloaded from the European Commission’s Europe 2020 website.
Source: Eurostat, see dedicated web section: Europe 2020 indicators dedicated website
The presentation of each country is supported by an illustration in the form of a radar chart. The chart shows the distance of a country from its national targets as a percentage of the targets through three elements: the national target (red line), the country situation in 2008 (yellow line) and the most recent situation (blue line). The closer a country is to the centre of the radar chart for an indicator, the larger is the distance to its respective national target. In contrast, the closer a country is to the outer red line of the radar chart, the closer it is to the respective national target. Data points on or outside the outer red line mean that the country has met or exceeded this target. The comparison of the country’s most recent performance with the yellow line reveals whether it has moved closer towards or further way from its targets since 2008 [1].
National targets that are not harmonised with the overall EU targets are not presented in the diagram. For example, this is the case with the poverty and social exclusion targets adopted by some countries. Regarding the indicator on energy efficiency, Member States have set indicative national targets based on different indicators (primary or final energy consumption, or primary or final energy savings, or energy intensity) in line with the Energy Efficiency Directive. These have been translated into absolute levels of primary energy consumption, expressed in million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe).
Progress towards the national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions targets is analysed based on emissions in sectors not covered by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) and in relation with the base year defined in the Effort Sharing Decision (ESD) [2]. For further details on the EU ETS and the ESD see the article on ‘Climate change and energy’.
The national targets (as defined in the NRPs) and the latest available national data for the headline indicators are presented in a separate table. Data on Europe 2020 headline indicators, targets and related issues are disseminated by Eurostat on a dedicated section of its website.
Articles by country
- (alphabetical order: 1st column down, then 2nd, etc. - click on country to access the article)
See also
Further Eurostat information
Publications
Main tables
Dedicated section
Methodology / Metadata
- Towards robust quality management for European Statistics - Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council COM(2011) 211 final.
Other information
- Regulation 223/2009 of 11 March 2009 on European statistics
External links
Notes
- ↑ Please note that in a few cases, some countries have changed their national targets since 2008, therefore comparisons with earlier editions of this publication may be misleading.
- ↑ The Effort Sharing Decision (406/2009/EC) originally defined 2005 as base year for Member States' GHG emissions reductions. However, due to recent recalculations with improved methodologies used at national level to measure the estimated emissions, 2005 values of countries are not necessarily equal to the value of the ESD base year.