摘要：The impact of the economic and financial crisis is still being felt. It started as an acute crisisof the banking system, but then quickly affected the real economy, causing a substantial slump in businessinvestment, household demand and output. The current economic crisis has affected almost all Europeancountries but the countries of the European south and the former eastern socialist republics have suffered themost. The objective in this paper is to quantify economic disparities as expressed by several growth indicators,such as GDP per capita, employment/unemployment rates, labour productivity rates and use them to comparethe economic performances before and after the crisis. EU took several measures to recover from the economiccrisis. Nevertheless, its ability to adjust to widely diverse national and local contexts that have been impacteddifferently by the effects of the crisis, and to support the different patterns of economic growth that will resultfrom it, is yet to be seen
关键词：Economic disparities; Economic and financial crisis; GDP per capita; labor productivity;employment rate; unemployment
