The European Sovereignty Index was built to measure the contribution of EU member states to the construction of European sovereignty. The latter is to be achieved by achieving a high level of implementation of common European policies, achieving the common objectives at European level by member states, but it also independent initiatives from member states designed to help in the strengthening of the European coordination and response in these areas. The index is carried out by an international ThinkTank, the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), whose chief role is to study and promote debate concerning issues of European Foreign Policy and Common Security. The index rates the overall achievement for each member country, as well as an assessment in 6 specific areas: Climate, Defense, Economy, Health, Migration and Technology. This makes it possible to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the European Union in these areas as well as the comparison between member countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The data necessary for the generation the Index is provided by the reports compiled from the associated researchers assigned to each of the 27 countries, as well as from the official data the member states provide, such as official statistics, surveys that measure public perceptions or other rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The European Sovereignty Index is rated with values from 0 to 10, where values from 0 to 4 are indicator that the country has failed to achieve common objectives in the relevant field; the values 4 to 5 mean that the country has marked a poor level of achievement: the values 5 to 6 show a somewhat satisfactory level of achievement; ratings from 6 to 8 indicate good level of achievement; and ratings from 8 to 10 indicate excellent performance in the respective field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In order to produce an estimated country rating, the European Sovereignty Index applies a pondered average, where the achievement of common objectives is weighted by taking into account the capacities of each country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In it\u2019s overall assessment, the Index shows that the European sovereignty in the year 2022 has marked the most significant progress in the field of Health, namely scoring 6.7 out of 10 points in total. The second best rated was the field of Economy, which is estimated with 6.2 points index out of 10 points. The Defense received a 5.9 rating out of 10 points in total. The fields of Climate, which scored an 5.4 points index and that of Migration with 5.2 points index out of 10, were evaluated at a somewhat satisfactory level. The fields with the weakest results in achieving common objectives in EU policy and therefore, in contributing to European Sovereignty, were Technology, in which EU countries jointly they scored only 4.8 points index out of 10 possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n