Lisbon Strategy

The Lisbon Strategy or Lisbon strategy (including the Lisbon process and the Lisbon Agenda ) is a law passed at a special summit of European leaders in March 2000 in Lisbon program that aims to the EU within ten years, ie by 2010, to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world.

Successor to the Lisbon strategy is the strategy " Europe 2020 ", which was adopted in 2010.

Objectives and Strategy

The goal of the Lisbon Strategy is to increase the competitiveness of the European Union. The aim is therefore to increase the productivity and speed of innovation in the EU through various policy measures. The benchmark used the competitors Japan and the U.S. in particular. With this strategy, the EU wants to be "a beacon of economic, social and environmental progress in the world as part of the global objective of sustainable development".

Main fields of this program are economic, social and environmental renewal and sustainability in the areas of:

  • Innovation as an engine for economic growth (based on Joseph Schumpeter )
  • The "knowledge society"
  • Social cohesion and environmental protection

To implement the objectives in the area of ​​social policy, the European Social Agenda, the European Council adopted in Nice in December 2000.

The progress report in 2004 under the leadership of former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok performs this comparison with the United States through in detail.

Kok criticized: "The European Union is at risk of failing to meet its ambitious target by 2010 the most competitive and dynamic economy in the world to be capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion " and calls for enhanced coordinated reform efforts.

At its meeting on 22-23. March 2005, the European Council endorsed the Lisbon growth objectives. However, since the growth distance had increased to the U.S. in the last five years, he avoided specific targets. Each Member State should create their own national reform programs.

Criticism

Criticism of the principles of the strategy is expressed from the severely affected education.

  • The open method of coordination is referred to as non-transparent and undemocratic and as a softening of the principle of separation of powers ( executive / The Heads of Government take over tasks of the legislature).
  • The EU has been accused of wanting to penetrate with the strategy in areas where they possess no powers according to their constitution ( this is particularly education ).
  • It is feared an instrumentalization of education for short-term, exclusively economic policy purposes.
  • From countries outside the Union also comes criticism because the strategy also non-EU countries should include massive and she is pushing for a more aggressive approach towards non-members (eg in the paper of the Swiss students association ).

Architects of the Lisbon Strategy

Contemporary scientists, whose work builds on the Lisbon strategy or who were involved in their creation or scientific monitoring and adaptation and are, are, inter alia,

  • Maria João Rodrigues ( Lisbon, Portugal, lead author and coordinator of the Lisbon Summit ) *
  • Robert Boyer (Paris, France) *
  • Manuel Castells (Berkeley, California, USA / Barcelona, Spain) *
  • Benjamin Coriat (Paris, France) *
  • Anthony Giddens (London, England / Santa Barbara, California, United States)
  • Wolfgang Drechsler (Tallinn, Estonia / Marburg, Germany ) *
  • Christopher Freeman ( Sussex, England)
  • Bengt- Ake Lundvall ( Aarhus, Denmark) *
  • Pier Carlo Padoan, (Rome, Italy) *
  • Carlota Perez ( Cambridge, England / Tallinn, Estonia)
  • Luc Soete (Maastricht, Netherlands) *

(* ) Member of the Lisbon Agenda Group

Key Concepts of the Lisbon Strategy

Key Concepts of the Lisbon Strategy are, inter alia,

  • Knowledge society
  • Innovation
  • Techno -economic paradigms
  • Technology Governance
  • Open Method of Coordination
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