On the EU2020, from Lisbon

In the beginning of a new decade, the European Union, while implementing its new institutional setting defined by the Lisbon Treaty, is dealing with two major challenges: redefining its role in the new emerging international order and renewing its development model. This renewal should be guided by a EU2020 succeeding to ten years of a unique experience of transnational coordination of economic and social policies framed by the Lisbon strategy adopted in 2000. This is the moment for a thorough critical assessment of this experience and of the situation we are now after of an also unique financial and economic crisis. This should also be the moment for setting a new ambition with very precise requirements, regarding a central purpose, the strategic priorities, the key-actions and the governance method for the years to come.