According to the most recent Regional Competitiveness Index (RCI) for 2016 published by the European Commission on Monday 27 February, the situation in the southern regions of the EU and Ireland appeared to stabilise between 2013 and 2016.
The RCI is based on the NUTS 2 (Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics) regions. The authors consider that the competitiveness situation has improved when there is an increase in the index of more than 5% and, on the contrary, when there is...