Práce hodnotí konkurenceschopnost Evropské unie z komplexního pohledu samotné EU, nikoliv pouze z pohledu členských států. Hlavním cílem této práce je objasnit, nakolik je Evropská unie konkurenceschopná v porovnání s ostatními ekonomikami a jakou má její konkurenceschopnost strukturu - jaké faktory na ní mají pozitivní či negativní vliv.

This thesis entitled Competitiveness of the European Union deals with the issue of competitiveness as one of the significant and dominant aspects that influence economic entities and political leadership of individual member states and the central institutions of the European Union. The aim of the work is in accordance with the assignment, which is an analysis of the factors of European Union's competitiveness against other major world economies and identify the strengths and weaknesses of the EU. The aim is also to assess the contribution of the policy of the EU institutions in improving of competitiveness. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the issue of competitiveness and a conflict of opinion trends concerning the very concept of competitiveness and its measurement. The second part is dedicated to the selected economic factors affecting competitiveness. In the practical part is used a regression analysis to identify the economic factors most acting on the EU economic growth. Follows the forecast of selected economic factors until 2020. The comparison of the competitiveness of the EU with the BRICS, USA and Japan is made by using obtained data. At the end of the practical part is summarize the influence of EU policies on competitiveness through the assessment of the Global Competitiveness Index.

The main aim is to describe the competitiveness of the European union not only from the view of single member countries but also as a whole. As I meassuring instrument to identify competitive advantages of EU countries I used the Global Competitiveness Report from World Economic Forum. In the last chapter I describe the forming of Lisbon agenda, goals and progress so far.

Práce pojednává o problému konkurenceschopnosti Evropské unie, který nabyl na důležitosti především v průběhu devadesátých let. Popisuje okolnosti vzniku Lisabonské strategie, nejkomplexnějšího programu reforem zaměřeného na růst konkurenceschopnosti EU, revizi Lisabonské strategie v jejím poločase a zapojení České republiky do jejího plnění. Ve svém závěru se zabývá cílem Lisabonské strategie předehnat ve výkonnosti USA a polemizuje o relevanci měření konkurenceschopnosti světových regionů.

This thesis has been developed with the intention to get acquaint with the development of agrarian foreign trade of the Czech Republic. The analytical part is based on theoretical knowledge included scientific literature and expert articles and together with the theoretical part describes the development of agrarian foreign trade of the Czech Republic from the year when Czech republic became a member of the EU to the present. Finally, the thesis includes a description of the structure of Czech agricultural foreign trade, both territorial and commodity, with the aim of defining the most significant innovations and most promising territories and commodity items, in terms of current and future. Research is processed summary data regarding the identification of changes in the development values, competitiveness, added value and unit prices in the period. Within the statistical analysis is then processed data and the conclusion, the results of the analysis are summarized. In the reporting period shows a majority of value development and partial characteristics of agrarian foreign trade of Czech Republic upward trend despite the fact that Europe is facing and struggling with economic or business crises. Balance of agricultural foreign trade for 2015 is 18,382 miles. CZK, which means that it is more oriented on imports. However, the degree of coverage of imports by exports is moving at 90.7%, which is 30% more than in the year of Czech Republic's entry into the EU.

The diploma thesis is focused on Croatia's economy and position in the international tourism market. The object of the thesis is a study of Croatia's economy and tourism in connection with its accession to the European Union. The aim of the thesis is to analyse macroeconomic indicators and evaluate position of Croatia in the international tourism market along with assessment of competitiveness in both areas. First part of the thesis evaluates economic situation of Croatia and its competitiveness. Considering Croatia's accession to the European Union, the thesis provides a comparative analysis of selected macroeconomic indicators with those of member states. The next part of the thesis is focused on tourism in Croatia, its characteristics and evaluation of competitiveness and position in the international tourism market. In the last part, the diploma thesis describes problematic areas and current policies of tourism in Croatia.

In this diploma thesis, I focus on Czech and European market of information technology. My principal aim is to analyze a measure of Czech competitive advantage in this sector. Both global statistic and segment characteristic are subjects of this analysis. My diploma thesis has following structure; after opening definition of literary sources, I deal with brief analyses of Czech IT market. Next two chapters are about European IT market structure and its characteristics. Last section is focused on competitive advantage of Czech Republic.