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Europe 2020 - The missing points
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I was born in a socialist country, so I am no fan of 10-year plans unless they come from the European Union. With the Lisbon Strategy, the EU has invented the internet. It has reformed its agricultural policy and made it greener, more efficient, and...
Ok from court in Brno
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I just received the message that the constitutional court in Brno have dismissed the complaint by the 17 senators regarding the Lissbon Treaty. That is very good news and thereby there are no legal or constitutional obstacles for President Klaus to s...
Klaus’s Sudeten German protest is last throw of dice on Lisbon
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It was inevitable, I think, that Czech President Vaclav Klaus would take his last stand against the European Union’s Lisbon treaty on the Sudeten German issue. This has been one of the most highly charged themes of Czech politics since the...
Recession dashes the EU’s Lisbon Strategy hopes
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Anyone remember the Lisbon Strategy? This was a grand European Union programme, adopted almost exactly nine years ago, to turn the EU into “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy” in the world by 2010. It set a number of...
EU Lisbon Strategy: National Reform Programmes 2008
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The EU member states have prepared new National Reform Programmes (NRPs) in the context of the relaunched Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs. The Employment page I first looked at when writing the previous blog post was not fully up to date, but the...
