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Reforms in Lisbon Strategy Implementation: Economic and Social Dimensions

"Reforms in Lisbon Strategy Implementation: Economic and Social Dimensions", published in English, is a proceeding of the international conference that was held in Zagreb in May 2006 under the same title. Its main goal is to contribute to better understanding of the Lisbon Strategy, seen as a reform framework for EU member states and an important guideline for the countries that aspire to membership. The book is a collection of essays written by different authors which examine how the European Union's Revised Lisbon Strategy is being implemented, what is its outcome, how are the reforms seen by the European Commission, and how are reactions from the Commission being perceived by the EU member states (especially the new member states). It brings together distinguished authors, academics and politicians from Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, Poland and Slovenia. The introductory chapter written by Višnja Samardžija gives an outline of contributions in this book putting them in the context of the overall debates on the Lisbon Strategy. In the new member states a particular problem is the existence of overlapping and sometimes even conflicting reform programmes which often jeopardises implementation of the Lisbon Strategy since it is founded only in soft law. Furthermore, implementation of the Lisbon Strategy in the new member states pointed towards the need of solving the discrepancy between enormous public tasks on one hand, and insufficient social, economic and administrative capacities on the other. Many contributions argue that the Lisbon Strategy objectives are relevant for candidate countries during the pre-accession stage. Therefore, as a candidate country, Croatia faces the challenge of approaching the Lisbon goals together with basic obligation of fulfilling the Copenhagen criteria, although both challenges are not an obligation at this stage.

Lisbon Strategy; revised Lisbon Strategy; European Union; soft - law; economic policy; social policy; development

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