This book brings together a wide range of policy experts from both old and new European Union member states, as well as from the US, and presents their insights, observations and research on the future of economic and social models in Europe. This book is an essential companion for all interested in this key issue.

LAJOS BOKROS Chief Operating Officer, Central European University, Budapest WALTER D. CONNOR Professor of Political Science, Sociology, and International Relations, Boston University; Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University KAREL DYBA Former Minister of Economic Policy and Development of the Czech Republic (1990-92); Former Minister of Economics, Czech Republic (1992-96) EWA FREYBERG Professor of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics STEVE H. HANKE Professor of Applied Economics and Co-Director, The Institute for Applied Economics and the Study of Business Enterprise, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Senior Fellow, Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. FILIP KEEREMAN Head of Unit, Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission PER KONGSHØJ MADSEN Professor and Director, Centre for Labor Market Research (CARMA), Department of Economics, Politics and Public Administration, University of Aalborg IVAN MIKLO Former DeputyPrime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Slovak Republic JACEK ROSTOWSKI Professor of Economics, Central European University, Budapest; Fellow, Center for Economic and Social Analyses (CASE), Warsaw SIEGFRIED STEINLEIN Deputy Head of Unit, Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission BIRGITTA SWEDENBORG Research Director, Center for Business and Policy Studies (SNS), Stockholm.