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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8166

8 March 2002
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
The real significance of the Barcelona Summit and the stakes at play - Overcoming ideological differences to safeguard the balance set out at Lisbon and meeting the deadlines - Pitfalls and hope

Overdramatising. Preparation for the Barcelona Summit has been generally positive at Community institutional levels, rather diverse and contradictory at a governmental level and provoked overdramatisation in the press. This has resulted in a certain confusion in public opinion. The meaning of the Summit could be summed up in the sentence - "finding the spirit of Lisbon"; which enabled the EU to set out the objective of becoming within the next ten years, "the most competitive knowledge-based...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION