The ECB also supports the further development work in this field, including the priority attached to compiling a reliable indicator for the price development of owner-occupied housing services and a further enhancement and harmonisation of adjustments for changes in the quality of goods and services.
Although enlargement has been a success story, in my view we have not done as well as we might have in communicating the benefits that this policy of enlargement has brought to citizens of the enlarged EU. For example, earlier concerns about the effects of enlargement on Labor migration and on wages have proved to be unfounded 4.