First objective achieved. On the role of research for the success of the "Lisbon strategy", the European Commission (and especially Philippe Busquin) have got the result which was by no means a foregone conclusions from the start. They have managed to attract the attention not only of the political authorities, but also of economic circles, and a proportion of public opinion, to Europe's shortcomings and delays in this fields compared to its main rivals, and to the seriousness of the...