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The Lisbon Strategy’s goal was to make Europe ‘the most competitive knowledge-based economy in the world’ by 2010. It has entirely failed to do so; instead, Brussels bureaucrats have succeeded in turning the European Union into the least dynamic economy in the world. A special mention should also be given to the euro zone, which is performing even worse than the rest of the EU.
Brussels will never admit that it is to blame, of course, as the EU never questions its own actions. Its proposals for solving these problems consist of even more Europeanisation – more market liberalisation, more regulatory constraints on firms, fewer public services, more European and global competition, less public funding and less welfare protection. The social and environmental goals of the Lisbon Strategy mark one have been done away with, and all-encompassing competition and productivity put in their place. People have become commodities, and the idea is that the market will shuffle them around and take care of unemployment.
The Barroso Commission’s proposals are nothing short of a nightmare. They admittedly take a ‘soft’ approach, as all they consist of is a programme and objectives, some of which even make sense. Yet we are only too familiar with the actual directives which transpose programmes of this kind, and which attempt to implement their objectives; the Bolkestein directive is an excellent example."@en1
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