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Conference on civil society's participation in Lisbon process places emphasis on lack of urgency felt for accomplishing Lisbon goals and lack of citizen information - second phase of strategy cannot succeed without greater civil society involvement

Brussels, 13/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - At a historic stage in European Union enlargement, the conference on civil society's participation in the Lisbon process, organised at the end of last week by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) at the request of European Commission President Romano Prodi, allowed the 250 officials of the networks of organisations that make up the organised civil society of the EU15 and of the ten future candidate states to take stock of mid-term review of...