GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/lisbon strategy

President Barroso makes concrete suggestions: research and education, encouraging SMEs and entrepreneurship, joining the labour market and energy - Gunter Verheugen said the Lisbon Strategy would give an incentive to slower ships - Barroso and Verheugen refuse to name Member States with best national reform programmes

Brussels, 25/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - Briefing reporters on 25 January on the European Commission's progress report on the partnership between the EU and Member States for growth and employment, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso stressed progress in the previous year in relaunching the Lisbon Strategy. He said that a year ago, the strategy did not work, but today the EU had given itself new instruments (like National Reform Programmes, NRPs). 'We have planted and now we...