Macroeconomic imbalances factsheet October 2015

The European Union has formulated the so called Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure. By means of a scoreboard, the European Commission judges whether there are (potential) imbalances within the member state’s economies. The scoreboard consists of eleven indicators, with lower and upper limits set by the Commission for each indicator. This factsheet, which is updated twice a year, explains at the scoreboard in more detail.