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	TP: The Death of Lisbon
		The rationale for this aspect of the Lisbon agenda is that people are the key determinant of both growth and competitiveness; in a so-called "knowledge-based economy", therefore, this must be doubly true.
		Still, those in favour of the Lisbon agenda are adamant in their belief that Europeans are actually in favour of the economic reforms proposed, and that it's vested interests that are blocking attempts at implementing them.
		The Lisbon agenda was born at the tail end of the tech boom, or as some have called it the "digital revolution".
	www.heise.de /tp/r4/artikel/19/19678/1.html (3033 words)

	Lisbon and Hague Speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		All too often in this House the Lisbon Agenda is limited to the issue of competitiveness, and we omit all the other facets concerning more and better quality jobs, social cohesion and sustainable development, which went on to be developed more fully at Gothenburg.
		If we reduce the Lisbon Agenda to the sphere of competition we are selling ourselves short and will not solve many of the problems facing our societies.
		The relevance of a partial reading of the agenda is thus highly questionable, and it is partly because of that partial reading that we have had such problems in implementing much of the agenda.
	www.jeanlambertmep.org.uk /downloads/speeches/0511LisbonHagueSpeech.htm (562 words)

	LFMI: Articles, Papers: EU: Lisbon agenda Lisbon Strategy or Bust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Lisbon strategy (after the city where the EU summit in March 2000 took place) has been presented as one of the EU's most ambitious projects of this decade.
		The objectives of the Lisbon strategy in the areas of entrepreneurship, in particular reduction of administrative and tax burdens, health reforms, education and pension system reforms, are also priority areas for new member states.
		At the same time, the very fact that the strategy includes policy objectives which are contradictory requires new members to choose their own priorities and not emulate the current EU welfare state policies that have caused the current economic slowdown (in particular, high social benefits reducing incentives to work).
	www.freema.org /Articles/Lisbon2.phtml (831 words)

	IMO - Department for European Integration
		The goal of this meeting was to contribute towards better understanding of the Lisbon strategy, as an incentive for reforms in the EU member states, but also as important guideline for the countries that aspire towards membership.
		According to Samardžija although not obligatory, the Lisbon Agenda objectives are relevant for the countries of South-Eastern Europe.
		The Lisbon agenda is complex, and each country, in line with their specific situation and stage of reforms, should differently interpret its priorities.
	www.imo.hr /europa/conf/lisbon/report.html (1378 words)

	Lisbon Revisited – Finding a New Path to European Growth
		Four years after the Lisbon Summit, despite significant progress in some areas such as the information society, the Lisbon process seems to have foundered, due to a combination of economic pressures, institutional inertia and, perhaps fundamentally, a failure to capture the imagination and support of the wider European public.
		To achieve overall policy coherence, the Lisbon objectives should be reflected in other key European and national policy areas, such as the Stability and Growth Pact, the EU Structural and Cohesion Funds, and EU competition policy and industrial policy.
		Lisbon is a multidisciplinary process, and as such it must remain coherent.
	www.accenture.com /Global/Research_and_Insights/Policy_And_Corporate_Affairs/LisbonGrowth.htm (795 words)

	ECB: The euro and the Lisbon agenda
		It is thus crucial that the Lisbon agenda’s impetus is maintained, which must manifest itself in increased efforts to reach the agenda’s 2010 targets.
		First, trust in the course of structural reform as fostered by the Lisbon agenda and a better understanding of the economic benefits structural reforms entail are conducive to raising consumer confidence and private consumption.
		The main challenge for the Lisbon agenda’s success is thus to persuade the people of the long-term benefits of structural reform and to remove the scepticism with respect to short-term costs.
	www.ecb.int /press/key/date/2004/html/sp040528.en.html (3924 words)

	EAPN
		The problem since Lisbon is not with the vision or development model that was proposed by the Heads of State and Government but as is widely recognised, the problem lies with the failure to fully implement the Lisbon Agenda.
		The evidence rather supports the assumption behind the original ‘Lisbon agenda’ that investment in high levels of social protection is conducive to high levels of sustainable growth and quality jobs and that it is necessary to maintain the equality between all three parts of the original Lisbon agenda.
		In Lisbon Heads of State and Government for the first time recognised that the extent of poverty in the EU was unacceptable and agreed to bring forward a strategy aimed at making a decisive impact on the eradication of poverty.
	www.eapn.org /code/en/publ_detail.asp?pk_id_content=1073 (1405 words)

	Department of the Taoiseach - Lisbon Agenda - Integrated Guidelines for Growth and Jobs - National Reform Programme, ...
		In an increasingly global marketplace, the goal set in Lisbon in 2000, to make the European Union the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world, with more and better jobs and greater social inclusion, by 2010, is equally valid, and equally challenging, in 2005.
		It is fitting, therefore, that the relaunched Lisbon Agenda puts the spotlight, in particular, on growth and jobs. For our part, the overall policy framework in Ireland is shaped by the Agreed Programme for Government.
		I, and my Government, remain fully committed to the Lisbon Agenda. I am confident that, with all twenty-five Member States working together, alive to the competitive threat from beyond the European Union while taking account of particular national circumstances, we can achieve the Lisbon goals which are so important for the people of Europe.
	www.taoiseach.gov.ie /index.asp?docID=2264 (413 words)

	Fulfilling the Lisbon Agenda
		On Nov. 3, Martin Jahn was appointed the government’s representative to coordinate and monitor the country’s progress with regard to the so-called Lisbon agenda.
		The agenda agreed by European Union leaders in 2000 aims to make the EU the strongest economy in the world by the year 2010.
		A: The agenda is important; it says we want to be the most competitive economy in the world.
	www.cbw.cz /phprs/view.php?cisloclanku=2004110809 (408 words)

	The Lisbon Council - Home
		In a landmark study, the Lisbon Council weighs into the current debate surrounding innovation by looking at the way Human Capital is developing in 13 European countries.
		In a landmark study, the Lisbon Council details the economic and social costs of under-investment in education, skills and life-long learning.
		Together with Oracle corporation, the Lisbon Council leads group of small- and medium-sized enterprises from ten countries to the European Investment Bank for one-day seminar on Financing for Innovation and Growth.
	www.lisboncouncil.net (624 words)

	LFMI: Articles, Papers The goals of the Lisbon agenda are hardly compatible, says LFMI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		LFMI concluded that attempts are made to combine two different goals in the Lisbon agenda - to create conditions for economic growth and increased competitiveness, and at the same time to promote social benefits and social cohesion.
		The Lisbon strategy was adopted in 2000 at the summit of the European Union in Lisbon.
		A summary of the study "Evaluation of the Lisbon agenda of the European Union and its impact on Lithuania"
	www.freema.org /Articles/Lisbon.phtml (849 words)

	EU: European Unionâs neo-liberal âLisbon agendaâ
		The concern of this lobby group of neo-liberals is that European Union politicians have lost their enthusiasm for both the Lisbon agenda and for enlargement.
		On the Lisbon agenda, it is clear that governments are alarmed by the struggle of the working class.
		The “key elements of the Lisbon agenda“, according to the Scorecard, are: - “Liberalisation“ - meaning creating a single market for energy, finance and telecom, “Reducing market-distorting state subsidies“, ensuring “that small firms face a more benign environment“, “reducing the burden of pensions on state finances“ and continuing labour market reforms.
	www.socialistworld.net /eng/2004/03/24eu.html (2135 words)

	BBC News Online \| Business \| Q&A: EU's Lisbon Agenda
		The agenda set out the way to achieve this with a series of goals in areas such as employment, innovation, enterprise, liberalisation and the environment.
		It is accepted that member states have not made the necessary progress on the Lisbon Agenda goals.
		Under the Lisbon Agenda one of the areas earmarked for liberalisation is services.
	news.bbc.co.uk /nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_4373000/4373485.stm (953 words)

	LISBON AGENDA II EN
		Marius Hirte and the Inter-ministerial Group focused on the Lisbon Agenda for the support and feedback in documenting sections of this report.
		agenda is complementary to the needed evolution of the Romanian economy, and it encompasses most areas of public policy.
		Moreover the Agenda is a reaction to the relative worsening of the EU competitiveness in comparison with the
	www.cerope.ro /pub/study62en.htm (1594 words)

	ECB: The Lisbon Agenda – what can banks contribute?
		The goal of the Lisbon partnership for growth and employment is to modernise our economy in order to secure our unique social model in the face of increasingly global markets, technological change, environmental pressures and an ageing population.
		Therefore, I see a strong link between the Lisbon agenda and the SEPA project, not only in terms of a common deadline, but also in terms of focusing on the modernisation of infrastructures and supporting innovation.
		In line with the Lisbon agenda, SEPA aims to exploit new possibilities offered by progress in information technology as well as increased readiness among the population for e-banking at the end of the decade.
	www.ecb.int /press/key/date/2006/html/sp060223.en.html (3316 words)

	MaltaToday
		The Agenda was improved and made more flexible to accommodate difficulties faced by member states during the first five years.
		Following such a revised Agenda, Malta recently submitted a roadmap for the next three years which was examined and approved by the Ecofin Council.This report covers the three years to 2008 and its main aim is to reduce the national deficit to match the Maastricht criteria.
		It is widely agreed that the main factor which is now being addressed by the revised Lisbon Agenda is the deep seated rigidities in labour laws combined with lack of competitiveness.
	www.maltatoday.com.mt /2006/03/26/b3.html (1008 words)

	Romania and the Lisbon Agenda (SETimes.com)
		It will be some time before Romania is genuinely in a position to embark on the ambitious goals of the Lisbon Agenda, which sets out to transform the EU into a knowledge-based economy that will be the "most dynamic and competitive" in the world.
		Broadly speaking, the Lisbon Agenda is an ambitious policy programme meant to combat the low productivity and economic stagnation witnessed in the EU, which has found itself lagging behind the United States and, increasingly, emerging Asian economies.
		The Lisbon Agenda functions both as an overarching vision and a complex set of policy guidelines.
	www.setimes.com /cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/articles/2005/11/07/reportage-01 (962 words)

	House of Lords - European Union - Twenty-Eighth Report
		Given the Government's role in lobbying for the Agenda in 2000, we are also surprised at the lack of interest in the launch of the National Action Plans.
		We were struck by the fact that, although the Agenda is sometimes referred to as part of wider discussions, there have not been any recent debates in either House specifically on it.
		We consider that parliamentary debates on the Agenda would help to raise its profile and engage citizens in the relative economic performance of the Member States and the urgency and desire for economic reform in Europe.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/ld200506/ldselect/ldeucom/137/13708.htm (1046 words)

	TCS Daily - Can This Agenda Be Saved?
		The Lisbon agenda advocated by the Commission includes: (1) generating employment and increasing flexibility of the labor markets, (2) increased emphasis on RandD, (3) sponsoring stronger industrial base and (4) completing internal markets unification.
		If anything, the re-birth of the Lisbon agenda appears to imply exactly the opposite - more harmonization and industrial base protection means more regulations and indirect state support.
		Despite the focus by the Barroso Commission on injecting new life into the clinically dead Lisbon agenda, the new policy objectives are about as realistic as the original 2010 deadline for the EU's planned Economic World Domination.
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=020105A (1616 words)

	IDABC - EU: Cities are ignored key contributors to Lisbon Agenda, say
		However, since the Lisbon declaration in 2000, governments have done little to involve cities in achieving the Lisbon goals.
		The majority have not adapted them explicitly, but do have policies in place in fields derived from the Lisbon Agenda such as employment, eGovernment and education.
		The study states that cities are in a position to contribute to the realisation of the Lisbon Agenda.
	europa.eu.int /idabc/en/document/5128/194 (314 words)

	Lisbon Agenda could 'make' European open source - Ping Wales \| Welsh technology news (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Everitt added that Europe, despite its long history of: "You invaded me, I invaded you, you conquered me, I took all your paintings back to the Louvre..." (sic), is now organising itself in a way that suggests a natural complement to the open source community.
		In particular, this is down to the Lisbon Agenda's stated aim to make the EU the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy by 2010.
		The thorny issue at hand is that to date, it's been the larger consultancies that have benefited from FP6 funding - and with several member states having missed the deadline for submitting their Lisbon Agenda action plans, there is growing concern that the ambitious targets set will not be reached.
	www.pingwales.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /2005/10/31/FLOSS-Lisbon.html (499 words)

	Luxembourg Presidency - Nicolas Schmit: "The success of the Lisbon Agenda is a challenge of solidarity, stability and ...
		On 3 March 2005, in Brussels, the Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs and Immigration, Nicolas Schmit, attended the opening of the conference entitled "Cohesion and the Lisbon Agenda: the Role of the Regions." This conference was held in the presence of the President of the Commission and the commissioner responsible for regional policy.
		The topics of discussion were the mid-term evaluation of the Lisbon Strategy (the Kok Report), competitiveness and governance, as well as the regions’ innovative potential.
		He reaffirmed that the Presidency shared the views of the recent Commission communication on the Lisbon Strategy, and agreed on the necessity to better communicate the real stakes of this strategy, namely growth and the maintenance of the social model.
	www.eu2005.lu /en/actualites/communiques/2005/03/03schmit/index.html (441 words)

	Welcome to the European Movement in the UK - The Lisbon Agenda for Economic Reform
		At the Lisbon European Council in March 2000, the Member States of the EU agreed a new strategic goal: “to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion”.
		The aim is to encourage mobility in the EU by adopting the Directive on mutual recognition of professional qualifications in 2005.
		The management of the Lisbon Agenda, and in particular the excessive number of targets, has been criticised.
	www.euromove.org.uk /publications/expert/lisbon (947 words)

	edie news centre - EEB warns Commission not to drop Lisbon agenda
		Europe's largest federation of environmental citizens' organisations, the EEB launched a paper entitled "Making the Lisbon Process work for sustainable development" at a one-day conference in Luxembourg in its latest drive to encourage next month's Spring Summit to take the Lisbon agenda seriously on board.
		"The Spring report 2005 is mainly devoted to the economic Lisbon agenda, not really integrating the social and environmental dimension, as has been the Commission's ambition since the Gothenburg Summit," EEB secretary general John Hontelez commented.
		According to Mr Hontelez, action from the Commission, the Council and Parliament called for by the EEB in its response to the Kok Report (see related story) had been disappointing, with demands to create and maintain a synergy between the economy and the environment still having failed to materialise.
	www.edie.net /news/news_story.asp?id=9604 (405 words)

	Maria Joao RODRIGUES > Lisbon Agenda > Lisbon Agenda Group (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Lisbon agenda is currently the agenda for socio-economic development of the European Union.
		It was adopted by the European Council of Lisbon in 2000 and it is reshaping many of the Community policies as well as being translated into National Reform programmes in all Member States.
		The purpose of this Lisbon Agenda Group is to bridge between this European agenda and the research agenda of socio-economic sciences, involving top experts at international level.
	www.mariajoaorodrigues.eu.cob-web.org:8888 /lisbon-agenda/group (287 words)

	Lisbon Agenda Foreign & Commonwealth Office
		At the Lisbon Special European Council on 23-24 March 2000 EU leaders set an ambitious objective for the decade ahead: that the EU should become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth, with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion.
		The Lisbon Agenda is extremely broad, covering social, environmental and economic policy.
		The Lisbon Agenda has already made a difference with many benefits to Britain.
	www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1140684765926 (516 words)

	LISBON AGENDA II EN (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		But the Lisbon agenda is very complex, and its priorities can be differently interpreted by each country: while EU is more concerned with social cohesion, job creation and support for RandD, Romania has still to deal with job destruction (through restructuring), disinflation, and improving business environment.
		agenda can be interpreted differently on a country by country basis.
		But these goals remain, fundamentally, valid; they reflect an increased awareness at EU level that traditional policies have started to fail providing results in the new economic context given by the globalisation challenges and the impact of new information and communication technologies.
	www.cerope.ro.cob-web.org:8888 /pub/study62en.htm (1578 words)

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