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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8840

3 December 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competitiveness/public sector
Commission underlines widespread inefficiency in European public administration

Brussels, 02/12/2004 (Agence Europe) - In its most recent report on European competitiveness, the European Commission estimated the public sector, the largest employer in many European countries (32% of jobs in Sweden, the highest level in an EU country, as opposed to 11% in Germany and the Netherlands, which share the lowest levels), was in general inefficient and that the current level of production in the EU public sector could be done more cheaply. The Commission also estimates, without...

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