Brussels, 06/04/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Union, whose achievements are indisputable and vitally important to its citizens, has nonetheless "failed miserably in its attempts at justification, in terms both of content and persuasion", especially on the Lisbon Strategy, the "Union's passport to the future". This is the bitter statement to be made by the President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), Roger Briesch, at the ministerial conference on 7 and 8 April in...