04 Mar 2005

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The Lisbon Strategy at Midterm: Expectations and Reality

Abstract

The Lisbon Strategy launched by the European Union in 2000 was designed to increase the growth and modernize Europe, while caring for sustainable development and social cohesion. The Strategy represented an innovative approach to development because economic objectives were not juxtaposed with social ones. Instead, the Strategy endeavoured to demonstrate that economic and social objectives are intertwined and the implementation the economic objectives might feed-back support and strength to the social objectives, and vice versa.