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	Lisbon Strategy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lisbon Strategy, also known as the Lisbon Agenda or Lisbon Process, is an action and development plan for the European Union.
		The Lisbon Strategy intends to deal with the low productivity and stagnation of economic growth in the EU, through the formulation of various policy initiatives to be taken by all EU member states.
		It was adopted for a ten-year period in 2000 in Lisbon, Portugal by the European Council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lisbon_Strategy (460 words)

	The Lisbon Strategy
		The Lisbon strategy (sometimes called the Lisbon agenda) is a development plan to improve the economy of the EU and to push forward the creation of the single market between 2000 and 2010.
		The Lisbon strategy was decided at the Lisbon European Council on 22-23 March 2000 by all the European Heads of Government.
		The Lisbon strategy is important to improve economic growth in the EU and complete the single market – both aims central to the original European project.
	www.civitas.org.uk /eufacts/FSECON/EC12.htm (751 words)

	LFMI: Articles, Papers: EU: Lisbon agenda Lisbon Strategy or Bust
		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).
		Still, other policy recommendations provided in the strategy direct the efforts of acceding countries in the wrong direction (cohesion policy), or are relevant but due to the fast growing economy the governments in the acceding countries seem to disregard them (for example, the recommendation to reduce budget deficits during the times of economic growth).
	www.freema.org /Articles/Lisbon2.phtml (831 words)

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		Lisbon is not about wage cuts or competition on the basis of bad working conditions; instead it is about economic, social and ecological policies that are mutually strengthening each other.
		Lisbon is not delivering because the kind of reform that is being pursued is not the right one.
		Lisbon is also not delivering because aggregate demand policies are being distrusted and have been abandoned.
	www.smallbusinesseurope.org /en/upload/File/Issues/Lisbon_Strategy/ETUC.doc (2047 words)

	smallbusiness\|europe / Issue Tracker / Lisbon Strategy:Background
		EU leaders meeting at their annual Spring summit on 22 and 23 March 2005 agreed that the central theme of the Lisbon Strategy was stronger jobs and growth, with the aim of making Europe an attractive place in which to invest and work.
		The primary focus of the summit was the re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs agreed at the 2005 Spring Summit.
		The Community Lisbon Programme was requested at the European Council in June 2005, to cover all Lisbon Strategy actions at community level and to complement the actions by the member states.
	www.smallbusinesseurope.org /en/basic310.html (4637 words)

	News - Archives - Highlights - Lisbon strategy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The declared aim of the heads of government at the Lisbon summit was to make the EU "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".
		What came to be known as the Lisbon strategy required action on various fronts: the internal market, the information society, research, education, structural economic reforms, a stable currency and a macroeconomic policy mix favouring growth and sustainable public finances.
		Another pillar of the Lisbon strategy was the development of the information society, which should help the shift towards a knowledge-based economy and the creation of jobs in areas with strong growth potential.
	www.elections2004.eu.int /highlights/en/1001.html (1895 words)

	Background to the recent events in France The "Lisbon Strategy" and the European trade unions
		The Lisbon Strategy made special mention of the “social partners”—that is, the trade unions and business organisations—whose “contribution is needed not only as a result of the radical change in the world of work, but also because of the need to ensure a common understanding of all the elements required for a dynamic economy.”
		It supports the Lisbon Strategy and campaigned in favour of the similarly “free market” EU constitution that was rejected by French and Dutch voters in referenda last year.
		In early 2005, the Lisbon Strategy was “re-launched” following the release of an EU report in November 2004 that concluded that few of the strategy’s economic targets were likely to be met by 2010.
	wsws.org /articles/2006/apr2006/lisb-a15.shtml (1955 words)

	Lisbon (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At its March 2000 meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, the European Council committed the European Union to 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 of this seminar series is to analyse, from an inter-disciplinary perspective, the evolution of the Lisbon Strategy since 2000.
		The Strategy is broad in scope, encompassing not only economic, employment and social policy reform, but also the creation of a new policy context for the Internal Market, Research and Innovation, Education and Training.
	www.laws.qmw.ac.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /lisbon (255 words)

	MPO \| Lisbon strategy \| The Lisbon Strategy
		The Strategy was adopted at the Lisbon European Council in spring 2000 with a ten—year timeframe (until 2010).
		The Czech Republic was already participating in the fulfilment of the objectives of the Lisbon Strategy in the pre—accession period, and was one of those countries which maintained an active approach to the strategy’s orientation and, in particular, to the need for institutional changes in the management of the whole process.
		The Lisbon Strategy seeks to find solutions to the long—term macroeconomic and structural problems of the European Union as a whole and of the individual Member States, and can contribute to the improved consistency of positions when setting the priorities of national economy.
	www.mpo.cz /dokument13105.html (1504 words)

	Midterm Review of the Lisbon Strategy
		The Lisbon Strategy is an important contribution to sustaining the European welfare state by means of economic, social, regulatory and labour market reforms.
		However, the multitude of reports on the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy show that, five years into the process, EU member states are lagging far behind schedule, despite a growing number of processes, objectives and goals all aimed at increasing competitiveness and employment.
		DA believes the Lisbon Strategy must be mainstreamed in all EU legislation, for there is a tendency for specific EU labour market legislation to weaken or even cancel the positive effects of employment initiatives.
	www.da.dk /SuperShowDoc.asp?PID=20050106121444NRO (691 words)

	Lisbon Strategy
		The ‘Lisbon Strategy’ (it is also sometimes referred to as the Lisbon Agenda) is a way of describing the more immediate priority objectives of the EU for the period 2000-2010.
		At the same Lisbon Council meeting, as part of following up on achieving greater social cohesion, they also agreed that the extent of poverty within the EU was unacceptable and they agreed to establish a strategy aimed at making a decisive impact on the eradication of poverty.
		Following changes in most of the Governments who agreed the Lisbon Strategy, the election of a new European Parliament and the appointment of a new Commission in 2004, an evaluation of the Lisbon Strategy was started.
	www.eapn.ie /policy/55 (1096 words)

	Solidar - Streamlining — the way to strengthen the social dimension of the Lisbon Strategy?
		In Lisbon, heads of states agreed upon a strategy that is based on the assumption that the fields of economic, employment and social policies are firmly interdependent and that their objectives and strategies should be mutually taken into account.
		The Lisbon Conclusions seek to ensure that the debate and policies with respect to the ‘economic’, the ‘social’, and the ‘environmental’ do not take place in a context whereby these aspects are considered as separate points, but in a triangular integrated approach.
		The Lisbon Strategy acknowledges the growing pan-EU evidence that economic policy formed without direct reference and consideration of social and environmental factors is not only out-dated for contemporary European economies, it also has a considerable negative impact on the EU’s competitiveness and productivity.
	www.solidar.org /Document.asp?DocID=4726&tod=3333 (1631 words)

	CORDIS: European Research Area: Taking ERA further: Towards 3% of GDP
		In March 2000, the Lisbon European Council set the goal of becoming by 2010" 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 project of creating a European Research Area, as proposed by the Commission in its Communication "Towards a European Research Area" was endorsed as a central element of The Lisbon strategy to achieve this goal.
		Two years later the Barcelona European Council, which reviewed progress towards the Lisbon goal agreed that investment in European research and development (R&D) must be increased with the aim of approaching 3 % of GDP by 2010, it also called for an increase of the level of business funding to two-thirds of total R&D investment.
	cordis.europa.eu /era/3percent.htm (630 words)

	Lisbon Strategy
		At the EU Summit in Lisbon in March 2000, the Heads of State and Government agreed on the following objective: “to make the European Union the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion”.
		In addition to a clearer focus on substance, the new Lisbon Strategy is characterised by a better allocation of competences and responsibilities in line with an approach based on partnership.
		Austria’s activities during the Presidency of the Council of the EU For this reason, implementation of the relaunched Lisbon Strategy and its focus on more growth and jobs in the EU will play an important role during the Austrian Presidency of the Council.
	www.eu2006.at /en/Policy_Areas/European_Council/Lissabon.html (456 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Why few targets are better than many
		The economic targets set out at the Lisbon summit of European Union leaders in 2000 were meant to help Europe leapfrog its way past the United States to become the world's leading economy by 2010.
		Lisbon risks becoming a "synonym for missed objectives and failed promises", his report said.
		That's why the Kok report recommends that the Lisbon targets be narrowed down to 14 key indicators, with an emphasis on creating jobs and economic growth.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/business/3979619.stm (917 words)

	Party of European Socialists - Parti Socialiste Européen - Lisbon strategy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Lisbon strategy was agreed and defined in the Lisbon Council of March 2000.
		Motion for a resolution, European Parliament resolution on the input to the Spring Council 2006 in relation to the Lisbon Strategy, Brussels, January 2006
		The debate over Europe and the Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs, by Maria João Rodrigues, President of the Advisory Group to the European Commission.
	www.pes.org /content/view/135 (735 words)

	LFMI: Articles, Papers The goals of the Lisbon agenda are hardly compatible, says LFMI
		The Lisbon strategy was adopted in 2000 at the summit of the European Union in Lisbon.
		The implementation of the Lisbon strategy is currently among the main issues on the EU’s economic policy agenda.
		Lithuania and other accessing countries joined the implementation process of the Lisbon strategy in 2003 and will meet with the EU member states to discuss the achieved progress in March this year.
	www.freema.org /Articles/Lisbon.phtml (849 words)

	The EFTA Secretariat: Lisbon Strategy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At the EU Lisbon Summit in March 2000 the EU embarked on a strategy to make Europe the most competitive knowledge based economy in the world by 2010.
		Many elements of the Lisbon strategy affect the EEA Agreement, and it is therefore a high priority for EEA EFTA countries to participate in relevant parts of the process.
		In January 2002 the group established an action plan identifying areas for follow-up on Lisbon Strategy initiatives of common interest to the EEA EFTA States.
	secretariat.efta.int /Web/EuropeanEconomicArea/LisbonStrategy?portal_skin=printable (216 words)

	EPP-ED Group: Key Notes
		The Lisbon Strategy touches on almost all of the EU's economic, social and environmental activities.
		The Lisbon strategy's potential lies in both its integrated and targeted approach as regards the policies and reforms to be implemented, with each element reinforcing the others.
		The performance of the Member States in transposing the directives related to the Lisbon strategy is bad, on average 58%.
	www.epp-ed.org /Policies/pkeynotes/48lisbon-strategy_en.asp (852 words)

	The Lisbon Strategy and Norway (Delegation site)
		The aim of the Lisbon Strategy is to make the EU the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010.
		At the EU Lisbon Summit in March 2000, the EU embarked on a strategy to make the EU the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010.
		The EFTA Ad hoc group on the Lisbon Strategy was in September 2003 transformed into a permanent EFTA group on the Lisbon Strategy and other horizontal policy issues.
	www.eu-norway.org /policyareas/lisbon (330 words)

	EUROPA - Education and Training - Lisbon strategy
		To ensure their contribution to the Lisbon strategy, Ministers of Education adopted in 2001 a report on the future objectives of education and training systems
		As well, the Bologna process, initiated in 1999 is crucial in the development of the European Higher Education Area.
		Both contribute actively to the achievement of the Lisbon objectives and are therefore closely linked to the "Education and Training 2010" work programme.
	ec.europa.eu /education/policies/2010/et_2010_en.html (698 words)

	EU Presidency 2004 Website > The Presidency > Ireland's Presidency > Lisbon Strategy
		The Lisbon Strategy commenced in March 2000 at the Lisbon Summit when Heads of State and Government set a goal for the European Union over the next decade to become:
		The strategy focuses on EU competitiveness and cohesion from an increasingly innovative EU economy, creating more and better jobs, giving all a greater stake in our society and protecting our environment.
		The Lisbon strategy is a major priority for the Irish Presidency of the EU and preparations are underway for the Spring European Council on 25/26 March 2004 at which the strategy will be reviewed.
	www.eu2004.ie /templates/standard.asp?sNavlocator=5,11,240 (564 words)

	Newropeans Magazine - Lisbon Strategy
		The Lisbon strategy is the European Union's plan of action to promote the regions' economic competitiveness in the world economy in par with its social cohesion.
		This came to be known as the Lisbon Strategy, encompassing a comprehensive and interdependent series of reforms, where maximum effectiveness would be achieved if all EU member-states acted in concert.
		The Lisbon Strategy is based on long-term action, nevertheless, increased commitment is needed at all levels to achieve improved economic growth and increased employment, social cohesion and environmental sustainability.
	www.newropeans-magazine.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1836&Itemid=227 (790 words)

	The European Union’s Lisbon Strategy
		The Confederation warned policy-makers not to use the mid-term review to ‘simplify’ the Lisbon Strategy by reducing it to a narrow agenda of structural reform and competitiveness, which would be seen as an attack on workers’ rights and protection, inevitably resulting in less, not more, support for Lisbon.
		In May 2004, as the Lisbon Strategy neared its halfway point, the European Commission (acting on the conclusions of the March 2004 European Council) set up a High-Level Group of Independent Experts chaired by former Netherlands Prime Minister Wim Kok, to make an independent assessment of progress.
		This unilateral approach contradicts the balanced integrated nature of the Lisbon Strategy, and stresses economic reforms to the exclusion of social and environmental needs.” It stressed the important role of the social partners, and that the European social dialogue and collective bargaining were essential to achieving success.
	www.etuc.org /a/652 (1566 words)

	EPP-ED Group: The Lisbon Strategy
		In half-way through the process, since the launching by Heads of State and Government of the European Union who met in Lisbon in 2000, the results are not very satisfactory.
		The EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament made Lisbon strategy one of his priorities and underlined, in several resolutions, decisions and press releases, the necessity to boost productivity and employment and summoned the Member States to assume their responsibility and do their part.
		Lisbon Action Plan incorporating EU Lisbon Programme and recommendations for actions to Member States for inclusion in their national Lisbon Programmes
	www.epp-ed.org /Policies/en/lisbon.asp (375 words)

	Committee of the Regions - Activities - Lisbon Strategy
		In the European Council conclusions of March 2005, the Heads of State and Government of the European Union approved the European Commission's proposal for a revised Lisbon Strategy.
		The re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy has two main objectives: to deliver stronger, longer-lasting growth and to create more and better jobs.
		The CoR has undertaken a number of activities surrounding the Lisbon process, aiming to analyse and verify the true level of involvement of the Local and Regional Authorities in the preparation of the NRPs.
	www.cor.europa.eu /en/activities/lisbon_strategy.htm (263 words)

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