The Lisbon Strategy

Member States ought to assume their part of the job

Jobs, growth, the environment and a proper social network. These, in a nutshell, are the main concerns of Europe's citizens. The current lack of economic growth affects all of us; our pensions, salaries and our standard of living considerably suffer from it.

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 implementation of reform in Member States has been quite scarce. The reform package consists of 28 main objectives and 120 sub-objectives, with 117 different indicators.

To remedy this lack of commitment of Member States, the Commission proposed to establish a new kind of partnership with Member States. It also decided to focus efforts on two main areas: productivity and employment. To make things simpler and more coherent, there should be just one national growth programme and one EU growth plan.

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.

13/02/2007:	Lisbon Strategy: Partnership for growth and jobs should be incorporated in Berlin Declaration. Marianne Thyssen MEP. more
13/02/2007:	La stratégie de Lisbonne est la réponse de l'Europe aux défis de la mondialisation. Margie Sudre, MdPE. more
05/02/2007:	Third Joint Parliamentary Meeting on the Lisbon agenda: input from national Parliaments essential for drawing up priorities. Marianne Thyssen MEP and Klaus-Heiner Lehne MEP. more
05/02/2007:	Human Capital: Mobility key to the Lisbon Strategy. Gunnar Hökmark MEP. more
05/04/2006:	Debate in Plenary sitting - Council of Ministers and Commission statement on the results of the European Council dedicated to the Lisbon Strategy. videos
24/03/2006:	Spring Council: Positive, if unspectacular working meeting - good decision on the Services Directive. Hans-Gert Poettering MEP, Chairman of the EPP-ED Group. more
29/03/2005:	4th Summit of Presidents of EPP-ED Parliamentary Groups of the European 25 - Financial Perspectives and the Lisbon Strategy on the agenda more

European Parliament debate (March 2005)

Archive Press releases

Useful links:
A new start for the Lisbon Strategy
The European Parliament and the Lisbon Strategy