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This article reviews issues and recent European initiatives in the area of financial participation of employees. Taking a broadly positive of the advantages of such schemes, it draws attention to differences between firms in different sectors and of different size, and to heterogeneous worker preferences. All initiatives in this area should be sufficiently flexible to take account of this and should be based on the principle of voluntarism.

The main purpose of the research is to examine the progress achieved by European countries in the field of implementing the concept of sustainable development and to point the group of countries that can be considered as leaders in that sphere. The research is based on the Eurostat data and it is conducted at macroeconomic level in the years 2004-2013. The sustainable development concept should be considered as a multidimensional phenomenon. Thus, Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) was used in the research. TOPSIS method allows to evaluate the objects in terms of multidimensional economic phenomena based on the set of detailed economic attributes (variables). The dynamic synthetic index describing the relative level of sustainable development of the countries was created, which enabled to propose a rating of the countries and group them into homogenous subsets. The grouping was conducted with application of natural breaks method. The comparison of the ratings in the period 2004-2013 shows that most of the new member states of European Union have made a significant progress in implementing the concept of sustainable development. The research enabled to point the countries that are the leaders in the field.

Good Governance presents the contemporary trend of managing public affairs worldwide. This concept is promoting the basic elements of subsidiarity, participation, and democracy in modern public administration. Presented article is focused on the evaluation of Good Governance development in the European Union countries in the long-term, in the period 2007-2017. The evaluation is based on the application of multiple criteria decision-making methods, concrete The Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution. The original data used in the research were the values of Worldwide Governance Indicators monitored and processed by the World Bank. The article presents a complete assessment of European Union countries according to the level of Good Governance. There are identified countries that have been successful in this area in the long-term, in particular the Nordic countries - Finland, Sweden and Denmark. On the contrary, there are countries that show greater shortcomings in terms of Good Governance as Romania, Bulgaria or Greece. The European Union countries were also grouped into clusters and the overview of rankings of individual countries for the period 2007-2017 was completed. ; Web of Science ; 19 ; 3 ; 231 ; 211

Good Governance presents the contemporary trend of managing public affairs worldwide. This concept is promoting the basic elements of subsidiarity, participation, and democracy in modern public administration. Presented article is focused on the evaluation of Good Governance development in the European Union countries in the long-term, in the period 2007-2017. The evaluation is based on the application of multiple criteria decision-making methods, concrete The Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution. The original data used in the research were the values of Worldwide Governance Indicators monitored and processed by the World Bank. The article presents a complete assessment of European Union countries according to the level of Good Governance. There are identified countries that have been successful in this area in the long-term, in particular the Nordic countries - Finland, Sweden and Denmark. On the contrary, there are countries that show greater shortcomings in terms of Good Governance as Romania, Bulgaria or Greece. The European Union countries were also grouped into clusters and the overview of rankings of individual countries for the period 2007-2017 was completed.

"Am Beispiel der Etablierung der 'neuen Methode der offenen Koordinierung' ('neue OMC') im Politikfeld 'Bekämpfung von Armut und sozialer Ausgrenzung' wird gezeigt, warum Scharpf in seiner integrationstheoretischen Klassifizierung der OMC mittels seiner 'Typen der Europäisierung' einen Einschätzungswechsel von 2000 bis 2002 vorgenommen haben könnte. Des Weiteren wird geprüft, ob Scharpfs Typologie die neuen Formen des sozialpolitischen Regierens in der EU hinlänglich erfassen kann. Abschließend werden Forschungsperspektiven aufgezeigt, die zu einer präziseren, integrationstheoretischen Klassifizierung der 'neuen OMC' beitragen könnten." (Autorenreferat)

According to the Lisbon Strategy, which was adopted in 2000, the European Union (EU) should become the most competitive region in the World. Goals, defined in the strategy, and instruments for seeking them are identified by structural indicators as well as their systems. It is possible to evaluate specific country's situation and compare it with other countries by using various specific indexes or applying statistical – mathematical methods. The aim of this article is to describe main structural indicators, which identify the implementation of Lisbon Strategy as well as progress in sustainable development and to evaluate Lithuania's and other Baltic States' position in the EU using statistical methods. In order to achieve this aim, the following tasks were raised: 1) to describe and classify structural indicators; 2) to overview main methods of quantitative analysis and to apply them when evaluating Lithuania's and other Baltic States' position in the EU. Lithuania's progress in achieving Lisbon Strategy goals was evaluated using the system of 13 shortlist structural indicators from Eurostat database and applying MULTIMOORA (Multi‐Objective Optimization by Ratio Analysis plus Full Multiplicative Form) method. The analysis showed that Lithuania is among top EU countries by such indicators as employment rate, youth education attainment rate, comparative price level and greenhouse gas emission. Thus there are no serious environmental problems in Lithuania and its production can successfully compete at international markets due to relative low production costs. Lithuania is backward by GDP per capita, labour productivity and employment rate of older workers. In addition, energy intensity of the economy needs to be optimized. Considering all the above, technologic backwardness is characteristic for Lithuania's industry (due to low labour productivity on the one hand and high energy intensity on the other) which can be eradicated by encouraging innovations and R&D activities. Baltic region is quite homogenous in innovation and research as well as in economic reform areas, thus it can become attractive for investors. Lithuania and Estonia could be assigned to medium performance group and Latvia is on the very limit of the low performance group. Article in English. Lietuvos situacijos Europos Sąjungoje įvertinimas: struktūriniai rodikliai ir MULTIMOORA metodas Santrauka.Pagrindinis Lisabonos strategijos, priimtos 2000 m., tikslas – Europos Sąjunga turi tapti konkurencingiausiu regionu pasaulyje. Tikslai, nurodyti šioje strategijoje, ir jiems siekti naudojamos priemones identifikuojamos remiantis struktūriniais rodikliais ir ju sistemomis. Įvertinti tam tikros valstybės situaciją ir palyginti ją su kitomis valstybėmis galima naudojantis specifiniais indeksais arba universaliais matematiniais‐statistiniais metodais. Straipsnio tikslas – nurodyti pagrindinius Lisabonos strategijoje numatytu tikslų įgyvendinimą identifikuojančius struktūrinius rodiklius ir įvertinti Lietuvos padėti Europos Sąjungoje. Tikslui pasiekti keliami šie uždaviniai: 1) apibūdinti ir klasifikuoti struktūrinius rodiklius; 2) apžvelgti pagrindinius struktūriniais rodikliais paremtus kiekybinės analizės metodus ir pritaikyti juos vertinant Lietuvos padėti Europos Sąjungoje. Naudojantis daugiatiksles optimizacijos metodais MOORA ir MULTIMOORA įvertinta Lietuvos pažangą (2008 m.) siekiant Lisabonos strategijoje numatytu tikslų. Tyrimo rezultatai parodė, kad Lietuva yra tarp pirmaujančių ES valstybiu tokiose srityse, kaip užimtumo lygis, jaunimo išsilavinimo lygis, santykinis kainų lygis ir šiltnamio efekta sukeliančių dujų emisiją. Taigi Lietuva neturi didelių aplinkosaugos problemų ir gali sekmingai konkuruoti tarptautineje rinkoje dėl palyginti mažų produkcijos sąnaudu. Labiausiai atsiliekama pagal BVP, tenkanti 1 gyventojui, darbo jėgos našumą ir vyresnių darbuotojų užimtumo lygį. Taip pat reikia mažinti energijos vartojimo intensyvumą (skatinti moderniu energetikos technologijų diegimą). Taigi Lietuvos ūkiui būdingas technologinis atsilikimas (žemas darbo jėgos našumas ir didelis energijos vartojimo intensyvumas), kuri galima panaikinti skatinant inovacijas ir MTEP veikla. Tam tikslui tūretų būti skiriama didžiausia ES struktūrines paramos dalis. Baltijos valstybiu rodikliu, identifikuojančiu inovacijų ir ekonominių reformų procesus, reikšmes yra panašios ir gana dideles tarp ES valstybių, taigi šis regionas gali tapti patraukliu investicijoms. Visas ES valstybes salygiškai galima suskirstyti į tris grupes, atsižvelgiant į jų pažangą siekiant Lisabonos strategijos tikslų. Lietuva ir Estija priskirtinos vidutinės pažangos grupei, o Latvija yra ties žemos pažangos grupės riba. Reikšminiai žodžiai:daugiatiksle optimizacija,MOORA,MULTIMOORA,struktūriniai rodikliai,Lisabonos strategija,strateginis valdymas,darnus vystymas,Europos Sąjunga,tarptautinis palyginimas. First published online: 10 Feb 2011