More work and less play is the best policy for Europe

Commentary feature in which the author discusses why Europeans are seen to less prosperous than Americans. He downplays competitiveness and productivity issues and stresses issues relating to working time. He says 'governments should focus on policies to end restrictions on working hours, to phase out early retirement schemes or to increase incentives for the unemployed to take up work. What the EU should not be doing is following diffuse reform programmes such as the Lisbon Agenda'