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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8171

15 March 2002
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
The Barcelona Summit will rekindle, without spectacular results, the Lisbon Programme on the path to an efficient and competitive Europe

What the citizens demand. The prospects for the Barcelona Summit now seem good. The possibility of rekindling and revitalising the Lisbon Process while respecting the balance between the opening up of markets and the affirmation of the European model of society (see this section of 8 March) is real. Sure, it will not be what one calls a "popular success". A timetable for the liberalisation of the electricity market and further progress towards a unified financial market will not monopolise...

Contents

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