Analysis of reaching the Lisbon Strategy targets at the national level: the EU-27 and Slovenia

Aristovnik, Aleksander and Andrej, Pungartnik (2009): Analysis of reaching the Lisbon Strategy targets at the national level: the EU-27 and Slovenia. Published in: Transylvanian Review of administrative sciences No. 27 (2009): pp. 5-21.

Abstract

Adopted by the European Council in 2000, the Lisbon Strategy is a long-term strategy whose main target is to make Europe the most competitive, dynamic and knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. During the 2005 mid-term review, the Lisbon Strategy refocused its two main targets on economic growth and employment, and formally integrated the Cohesion policy into its implementation. In spite of the review, the efforts to meet the strategic targets have proven insufficient at both the EU and Slovenian levels. While certain progress has been observed, the strategy should be further adjusted, coordinated and supplemented at the national and pan-European levels so that the Lisbon targets can be attained. The article investigates the current stage of the achievement of the targets, using the time-distance method to calculate the time lead or lag in implementing the Lisbon Strategy targets at the levels of the European Union and Slovenia.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: EU, Slovenia, Lisbon Strategy, Lisbon targets, Cohesion policy, time distance
• Subjects: P - Economic Systems > P1 - Capitalist Systems > P11 - Planning, Coordination, and Reform; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C8 - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs > C88 - Other Computer Software; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C4 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics > C49 - Other; O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O5 - Economywide Country Studies > O52 - Europe

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