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In Stockholm, Europe confirms and specifies its strategy in view of creating most competitive and dynamic economy in world, but four failures cast gloom on summit's globally positive results

Ambition remains. The Lisbon strategy was confirmed as the basis of the EU's economic policy for the decade that has just begun, it was even complete in some of its elements. It is normal that, in several commentaries, the emphasis was placed on certain divergences that remain, but the main results of the Summit, the confirmation of a strategy and its aim. That aim, we know, is extremely ambitious: create, by 2010, the most competitive and dynamic knowledge economy in the world. What...