The level of implementation of Europe 2020 Strategy headline areas in European union countries

Europe 2020 is a programme, as a result of the economic crisis from 2008-2009, makes clear that there is a necessity of reforms employment and setting the EU development priorities in order to avoid similar crisis in the future. The main objective of conducted analyses is examination of the progress of indicators in Europe 2020 Strategy headline areas (meaning the progress of headline indicators in five areas: employment, research and development (R+D), education, climate change and energy, poverty and social exclusion). To examine similarities between the EU countries as regards the level of Europe 2020 Strategy implementation Hellwig's development pattern method was used. The headline indicators of Europe 2020 Strategy proposed by Eurostat were the basis of the evaluation. The calculations were made with Excel programme.