Flagship Project
A composite framework measuring preparedness for deeper European integration across macroeconomic stability, competitiveness, institutions, and environment.
The Framework
Accession progress is normally tracked chapter by chapter — technical, sequential, and hard to compare across countries. The Integration Readiness Index (IRI) is built to answer a simpler, urgent question: relative to its peers, how ready is a given economy for the next stage of European integration?
The Index combines publicly available macroeconomic, governance, and structural indicators into a single, comparable readiness score, broken down across four pillars.
The Four Pillars
Inflation, fiscal balance, external debt, and currency stability.
Trade openness, productivity, investment climate, and infrastructure.
Rule of law, administrative capacity, and anti-corruption enforcement.
Alignment with EU environmental standards and energy transition progress.
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