The Lisbon Strategy After 2010. Strategic Options from the EuroWorld 2015 Report
The European Union is faced with great new challenges that will inform its development over the next decade. Apart from economic issues, it is social and environmental topics which are getting increasingly critical. This dynamic setting makes it necessary to set about a strategic reorientation of the European Union for the period after 2010 based on its current Lisbon strategy. The "EuroWorld 2015" report commissioned by the French Presidency shows that the orientation of the EU as a "knowledge-based economy" was fundamentally right and should be continued. Research and innovation will continue to be the key drivers of growth, employment and affluence in a globalised world. Implementation of the objectives of the current Lisbon strategies is to be pursued unchanged up to 2010. They should be revised and adopted only within the frame of designing a "Lisbon post-2010 strategy" which should have a clear focus on a coherent, lucid and comprehensible catalogue of economic policy goals centred on research and innovation.