The Lisbon Strategy: Which failure? Whose failure? And why? Egmont European Affairs Program Paper, March 2006

Zgajewski, Tania, and Hajjar, Kalila. (2005) The Lisbon Strategy: Which failure? Whose failure? And why? Egmont European Affairs Program Paper, March 2006. [Policy Paper]

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Abstract

Pessimistic comments are crowding the medias about the failure of the Lisbon strategy. At the end of 2004, the latest Kok group's report has emphasized "the failure of the Lisbon strategy". There is now a debate about the remodeling or the rationalization of the strategy. Before taking decisions, it would be opportune to organize a reflection about the extent of the failure and its causes. Otherwise any reform runs the risk of being not adapted or even counterproductive. Different questions must be examined : what is the real competitiveness problem ? is there a real need of an EU initiative ? do the different characteristics of the approach chosen in 2000 make sense ?

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