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[:sv]Almost exactly a year ago, I found myself reporting the fuss in Brussels about the failure of the Lisbon Strategy, the European Union’s 10-year plan to make Europe ”the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion, and respect for the environment by 2010”. All around me, Euro-pundits, Eurocrats and European parliamentarians chorused, as one, that the roots of the problem lay in process: national governments had ducked reform because the EU lacked the legal tools to make them reform. Läs hela artikeln här…

 [:en]Almost exactly a year ago, I found myself reporting the fuss in Brussels about the failure of the Lisbon Strategy, the European Union’s 10-year plan to make Europe ”the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion, and respect for the environment by 2010”. All around me, Euro-pundits, Eurocrats and European parliamentarians chorused, as one, that the roots of the problem lay in process: national governments had ducked reform because the EU lacked the legal tools to make them reform. Read the article…

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