Briefing Notes

Small countries took all five top places in the 2007 Prosperity Rankings, three of them Scandinavian countries. By  Download Briefing Note: BN#50

With a shrinking population in its core, EU-27 lags further behind NAFTA & EFTA in terms of prosperity. By  Download Briefing Note: BN#49

the EFTA countries – Switzerland, Norway and Iceland – remain outside the EU. They are more prosperous than EU-27 as a whole, or the Eurozone, or the UK. By  Download Briefing Note: BN#48

The latest population projections of countries' working-age populations confirm that – with the exception of a number of English-speaking offshore islands and Sweden – the outlook for the EU ranges from bleak to the catastrophic. By  Download Briefing Note: BN#47

Rising deficit with the EU, surplus with the Rest of World. The UK surplus on its trade with the USA rises for the fourth year running. By  Download Briefing Note: BN#44