Europe 2020

Press quote (Newsweek)
Simon Tilford
18 May 2010

By 2020, argues Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform in London, the southern European tier could become Europe's most competitive and dynamic region provided it finally moves ahead with reforms that limit government spending, cut inflated public payrolls, and open up overregulated labour, product, and service markets that have stifled growth, productivity, and competitiveness in these economies.