A brief assessment of the Europe 2020 strategy

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International Journal of Development Research

A brief assessment of the Europe 2020 strategy

Abstract: 

When the Lisbon strategy was formulated in 2000, the US appeared for the EU (then EU-15) as the shining example of a competitive mature economy. Its employment rate became the target for the EU for the year 2010 and the ambition for the EU was to overtake the title “the most competitive knowledge economy in the world’’ from the US.

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