EU: the Twenty-Seven open the debate on the post-2010 Lisbon Strategy

on December 10-11, the heads of State and government of the EU, gathered in Brussels, opened the debate on the reform of the Lisbon strategy. They want it to be an “ambitious” strategy, to improve the coordination of national structural reforms and ensure better follow-up of its implementation. (Ref. 091136)

New ambitious strategy. Making the EU “the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world (…) by 2010;” this was the leitmotiv of the Lisbon Strategy in 2000. This expre