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The Lisbon Strategy in the Wider European Context

The paper presents an overview of key accents in papers presented in the proceedings of the international conference &laquo ; Reforms in Lisbon Strategy Implementation: Economic and Social Dimensions&raquo ; . Its aim is to make an introduction to author’ s contributions, putting them into the context of the overall debates that were held during the conference. The key message is that the initial Lisbon strategy has not been a success due to the lack of political leadership, commitment and ownership from the part of member states, but also due to bad governance and lack of prioritisation. Hopefully the reforms in Lisbon strategy will result with improved delivery and better results thanks to the more focused objectives, clearer planning and stronger ownership of the process in member states. Good practice of new member states is particularly useful for Croatia. Although not obligatory, the Lisbon Agenda objectives are relevant for Croatia in the pre-accession stage ; it’ s objectives will be reflected in the EU’ s policies towards the whole SEE region in the areas that can be considered priorities for the countries overall reforms. The paper gives an assessment of Croatia’ s progress in approaching the Lisbon goals.

Lisbon Strategy, economic and social reforms, objectives, achievements, benchmarking, SEE

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