The second study on productivity, commissioned by the European Employers’ Institute (EEI) and conducted by Rexecode (France), offers a  detailed country- and sector-level analysis  of the EU–US productivity gap over the 1995–2019 period. The findings show that the core EU economies – Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands – are the main contributors to the EU’s slower productivity growth, despite their strong overall contribution to the European economy