The Lisbon Council and Berenberg jointly release The Euro Plus Monitor Spring 2016 Update, the latest installment of the bi-annual competitiveness ranking of 18 eurozone countries (plus Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom). Subtitled “Economic Progress Amid Rising Political Risk,” the report was launched at a high-level summit in the presence of Valdis Dombrovskis, vice-president of the European Commission responsible for the euro and social dialogue.