West Europe’s services sector gets FDI boost

Article discusses two recently published reports on European industry and its competitiveness, Ernst & Young’s annual survey of European Attractiveness and a report from the European Roundtable of Industrialists, which quantifies its members' contribution to the European economy.

Western Europe’s foreign investors created more jobs in the services sector than in industry for the first time in 2007, evidence that the region is succeeding in its evolution towards a knowledge-based economy.

Website: Ernst and Young http://www.ey.com/global/content.nsf/International/Home

European Round Table of Industrialists http://www.ert.eu/

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