Lisbon Strategy

The Lisbon Strategy, also known as the Lisbon Agenda or Lisbon Process, is an action and development plan for the European Union. It was set out by the European Council in Lisbon on March 2000.

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Development plan - European Union - European Council - Lisbon - 2000

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Preparation was carried out in relation with the broader reaching Council of Europe, the international organization of the "wider Europe", which also has charge of education in Europe.

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Council of Europe - International organization - Education

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Between April and November 2004, Wim Kok headed up a review of the program and presented a report on the Lisbon strategy suggesting how to give new impetus to the process.

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2004 - Wim Kok

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The review group consisted of 12 individuals representing different Stakeholder groups. Among these are Anne-Marie Idrac, chair of RATP, the Paris public transport system, and a former Transport Minister; Will Hutton, governor of the London School of Economics and chief executive of the Works Foundation; and Niall Fitzgerald, chair of Unilever and co-chair of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue, a lobby organisation criticized for representing US-american interests in Europe.

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Stakeholder groups - Anne-Marie Idrac - RATP - London School of Economics - Niall Fitzgerald - Unilever - Transatlantic Business Dialogue

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The Commission used this report to declare the social and environmental aspects of the Lisbon Agenda were no longer a priority and that instead the strategy would be revised to focus on the economic context only.

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