Europe, despite the economic crisis and estimates from economic experts that it is slowly losing ground, offers the most business opportunities and has the best-regulated market. This is at least what the results of the research published by the business magazine Forbes at the end of each year claim.
This Forbes research covered 144 countries and measured 11 factors to arrive at optimal results (property rights, innovation, tax system, technology, corruption, monetary, individual and trade freedom, bureaucracy, investor protection, and stock market status), with equal importance assigned to each in calculating the final results.
Denmark has taken, as it did last year, the first place on this prestigious list, and of the top 25 countries, two-thirds are from the ‘Old Continent’. Croatia, on the other hand, ranked 46th. Things are not bright for the United States, which now finds itself in a poor 22nd place. However, what is particularly concerning is the constant decline that this superpower is experiencing. In 2009, it was in second place in the world, and since then, its rating has been falling every year. The United States is the largest economic market in the world, but its stumbling blocks are bureaucracy, low monetary freedom, and weak investor protection.
