LissabonVid EU-toppmötet i Lissabon 2000 lovade
EU:s stats- och regeringschefer att unionen Faktum är att de flesta av EU:s stora projekt ligger i ruiner. If the EU’s problem is not lack of competitiveness or productivity, but a low rate of per capita working time, governments should focus on policies to end restrictions on working hours, to phase out early retirement schemes or to increase incentives for the unemployed to take up work. We must overtake and outstrip the advanced technology of the developed capitalist countries.
There were two Five Year Plans – 1928–33 and 1932–1937. Cit. from the speech given by Stalin to the party Central Committee in Nov. 1928. At last March's Lisbon summit, EU leaders set themselves the target of making Europe
"the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" within a decade. Carl Bildt - CER BULLETIN, ISSUE 16 February/March 2001 In March 2000, the EU Heads of States and Governments agreed to make the EU
"the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy by 2010". EurActiv.com Om EU skall bli bättre än USA, och Sverige inom detta EU skall röra sig upp i listan,
handlar det om att skapa förutsättningarna för en turboutveckling av Sverige. Carl Bildts veckobrev v14/2000 Rolf Englund: En likhet mellan Carl Bildts EU och Josef Stalins SU kan vara storhetsvansinnet; Megalomanin, se t ex Rolf Gustavssons kolumn i SvD 22/6 2003: "Sassa brassa mandelmassa" heter på eurospråket "Lissabon-processen".
Five years ago, the European Union's leaders suffered their own collective version of irrational exuberance. In Lisbon, at what was dubbed "the dotcom summit", they issued a ringing pledge to turn stodgy old Europe into "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" by 2010. Ever since then, EU leaders have tried to live this down. Optimism was punctured as brutally as the dotcom bubble was on world stock markets. Exuberance turned to disappointment and then to self-flagellation. Although there were extenuating circumstances to the outcome - including terrorism, geopolitical uncertainty and crashing markets - the so-called Lisbon agenda has become synonymous with missed targets and failure of political will. There is an argument that Europe, having overdosed on optimism, is now overdoing the gloom. It already has some of the world's most successful economies - mostly those of Nordic countries - and even its reform laggards are making efforts to catch up. Germany, long seen as the continent's sick man, has been though painful changes to curb unemployment benefits and cut health and pension costs. Growth remains slow and more remains to be done but a number of economists believe it will turn the corner. "The incentives have already worked. Unit labour costs compared with other euroland countries have improved over four years by about 10 per cent," says Norbert Walter, Deutsche Bank's chief economist. Few have realised the most dangerous feature of EMU: Top EU har långt kvar till målet
att bli världens starkaste ekonomi. Detta enligt en brittisk rapport som
läggs fram på måndagen. Sverige får dock beröm.
För tre år sedan, vid EU-toppmötet i Lissabon, sattes målet att EU år 2010 ska vara världens mest konkurrenskraftiga kunskapsbaserade ekonomi. Nyligen påpekade EU-kommissionen att reformtakten måste ökas avsevärt om målet ska nås. Under 2002 ökade produktivitetsklyftan mellan EU och USA. Framsteg har ändå gjorts, anser Alasdair Murray vid den inflytelserika brittiska tankesmedjan Centre for European Reform, som i dag lägger fram sin årliga Lissabonrapport. Men medan de nordiska länderna betraktas som ljuspunkter, där många av målen redan uppnåtts, får Tyskland, Italien och Frankrike stark kritik. Den tyska ekonomin och landets höga arbetslöshet kastar en lång skugga över Europa, står det i rapporten. Det senaste årets hjältar är framförallt Finland och Danmark. Även Sverige får beröm på en rad punkter och det får också ansökarländerna Estland och Slovenien. RE: "på en rad punkter"? Så här heter det i
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