SUSTAINABILITY • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Sustainability

... some tax reforms to that end. Unemployment, nonetheless, remains the highest in the EU at 20%. The government, for political reasons, has made only limited progress in changing labor laws or reforming pension schemes, which are key to the sustainability of both Spain's internal economic advances and its competitiveness in a single currency area. Adjustment to the monetary and other economic policies of an integrated Europe will pose difficult challenges to Spain ...

— The 1999 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.