Table 4.
Ranks of the EU countries by the TOPSIS method.
| TOPSIS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Period 1 | Period 2 |
DIFF (period 2 – period 1) |
| SE | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| DK | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| NL | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| UK | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| FI | 5 | 8 | 3 |
| IE | 6 | 4 | −2 |
| BE | 7 | 6 | −1 |
| DE | 8 | 10 | 2 |
| LU | 9 | 17 | 8 |
| ES | 10 | 7 | −3 |
| SI | 11 | 12 | 1 |
| FR | 12 | 15 | 3 |
| SK | 13 | 14 | 1 |
| CZ | 14 | 13 | −1 |
| MT | 15 | 11 | −4 |
| AT | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| CY | 17 | 9 | −8 |
| HU | 18 | 18 | 0 |
| HR | 19 | 20 | 1 |
| EL | 20 | 25 | 5 |
| IT | 21 | 19 | −2 |
| PT | 22 | 22 | 0 |
| PL | 23 | 21 | −2 |
| EE | 24 | 27 | 3 |
| BG | 25 | 23 | −2 |
| LT | 26 | 24 | −2 |
| RO | 27 | 26 | −1 |
| LV | 28 | 28 | 0 |
Country codes: BE, Belgium; BG, Bulgaria; CZ, Czech Republic; DK, Denmark; DE, Germany; EE, Estonia; IE, Ireland; EL, Greece; ES, Spain; FR, France; HR, Croatia; IT, Italy; CY, Cyprus; LV, Latvia; LT, Lithuania; LU, Luxembourg; HU, Hungary; MT, Malta; NL, the Netherlands; AT, Austria; PL, Poland; PT, Portugal; RO, Romania; SI, Slovenia; SK, Slovakia; FI, Finland; SE, Sweden; UK, the United Kingdom.