Which are the best and worst National Reform Programmes?
The Commission does not want a Eurovision song contest approach with national programmes ranked in order. Naming and shaming can work where we are dealing with simple statistical concepts, such as who has and has not implemented the European laws that they have agreed to, but not here. Each Member State is starting from a different position and faces different challenges. Every National Reform Programme contains excellent and innovative proposals which other Member States can learn from, adapt and adopt. Each also has its weaker points. The Commission has tried to be scrupulously fair and frank in pointing out both strong and weak points in its assessments.
