...networks. The EC's vision? "Improving basic skills, particularly IT, and digital skills, is a top priority to make the [European] Union the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world," European leaders said in a statement at the end of the summit. "This priority includes education policies...

...strategy, which, as you mentioned this morning, Mr. Chairman, seeks for the European Union to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. Now I won't go into the legislative process in the European Union. You can find a description of that...

...framework At their Lisbon conference in 2000, European leaders declared that they wanted the EU to be 'the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world' by 2010. Developing an advanced communications infrastructure is central to that aim, and it was with this in...

...policy development. The European Council Summit in Lisbon, 2000, announced the goal of making the EU the "most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" by 2010. This objective necessitated the creation of additional innovation policy initiatives at EU national and regional levels,...

...opportunities. In 2000 the European Council launched an ambitious agenda to turn the European Union into the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. In 2002 the European Commission claimed that progress in achieving this aim was being held back due...

...other European Union (EU) candidate countries in June 200 1. EU's ambitious Lisbon Strategy ,,to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010" is also well recognized by Turkey, and Turkish government is sharing the very same goal as a candidate...

...goal. The Lisbon European Council 2000 adopted an economic reform programme with the aim of making the European Union the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. A key part of the programme is to make the Internal Market a reality for services. As a result the...

...concerned that the goals agreed upon by the European Council in Lisbon in March 2000 that aim at making the European Union "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" by 20l0 called for EU competition policy to better reflect economic and market realities and to become...

...Declaration. Here the European Council leaders committed themselves to the ambitious goal of making the EU the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010. This businessfriendly agenda explicitly recognized the importance of entrepreneurs as a means of growth...

...pursues the primary objective, solemnly established in Lisbon in 2000, of turning the European Union into "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" by 2010. However, progress towards this goal has been disappointing thus far (Chapter 4). As noted, on unchanged...