Press Release: Partnership for Growth and Jobs well on track: 23 Member States have delivered national reform programmes

The European Commission informed Ministers of the Competitiveness Council on 29 November 2005 that it had received the growth and jobs national reform programmes (NRPs) from all EU Member States except Poland and Germany, where new governments had just taken office. The Commission had already started to assess the programmes and was planning to present a report in January 2006, which would subsequently go to the March European Council. All 23 programs offered an overview over the planned measures in the areas of macro- and microeconomic policies as well as on employment.