| Author (Person) | Pritzkow, Thomas | ||
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| Publisher | ProQuest Information and Learning | ||
| Series Title | In Focus | ||
| Publication Date | February 2006 | ||
| Content Type | News, Overview, Topic Guide | In Focus | ||
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Four years later, at the European Council in March 2004, Heads of States and Governments decided that in the light of sluggish progress on the agreed agenda a mid-term review of the Lisbon Process should be prepared for the Spring Council in the following year. To this purpose a High-Level Group of experts was set up, headed by the former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok. A final report ('Kok Report') was adopted in November 2004 calling for a more focussed agenda and for national reform programmes to be drawn up in each Member State to support the Lisbon Strategy. The European Commission embraced these recommendations in its Mid-term Review and at the 2005 Spring European Council the Lisbon Strategy was relaunched as a 'Partnership for Growth and Jobs' (also referred to as the 'renewed Lisbon Strategy' or 'Strategy for Growth and Jobs'). With the relaunch of the Strategy it was decided to simplify the reporting system. Each year the European Commission adopts an 'Integrated Guidelines Package' (combining the 'Broad Economic Policy Guidelines' and the 'Employment Guidelines'). On this basis, each Member States draws up a National Action Programme (also 'National reform programme' or 'National Lisbon programme'), outlining specific policy requirements at national level. In a three-year co-ordination cycle - the first of which will run from 2005-2008 - two 'light reviews' will produce 'EU Annual Progress Reports' and will be followed by a third, more 'in-depth' assessment feeding into an 'EU Strategic Report' (expected for 2008). On 25 January 2006 the European Commission published the first Annual Progress Report, entitled 'Time to move up a gear. The new Partnership for Jobs and Growth' responding to the National reform programmes submitted by the Member States in October 2005. Find updated and further information sources in the ESO database:
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| Subject Categories | Economic and Financial Affairs, Employment and Social Affairs | ||
| Countries / Regions | Europe |
