EU: recommendations of the European Economic and Social Committee on the post-2010 Lisbon Strategy

Maintaining the Lisbon Strategy. Will the Lisbon Strategy be reformed? While the French and Czech Presidencies postponed the debate, the Twenty-Seven considered, at the spring European Council, that the Lisbon Strategy remained a useful tool in times of a crisis. Therefore, talks should accelerate by the spring 2010, the date planned for the completion of the new strategy. The opinion the EESC rendered in early November prepares the ground for the future reform.
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gy be reformed? While the French and Czech Presidencies postponed the debate, the Twenty-Seven considered, at the spring European Council, that the Lisbon Strategy remained a useful tool in times of a crisis. Therefore, talks should accelerate by the spring 2010, the date planned for the completion of the new strategy. The opinion the EESC rendered in early November prepares the ground for the future reform.

Created in 2000, the Lisbon Strategy aims at making the EU “the world’s most competitive

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