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: Europe defines strategy which should lead to full employment and a leading position in the world economy within ten years, but it all begins now as recipe does not equal result

Coming back to earth. Now is the time to come back down to earth. In the weeks leading up to the Lisbon Summit, the leaders of Europe - the political authorities but also the social partners - were travelling in a land whose name has been known to our civilisation for centuries - Utopia. We have all, to a greater or lesser extent, taken part in this journey, as we were convinced that Europe was finally going to define its economic strategy combining freedom of initiative and "American-style"...