Overdramatising. Preparation for the Barcelona Summit has been generally positive at Community institutional levels, rather diverse and contradictory at a governmental level and provoked overdramatisation in the press. This has resulted in a certain confusion in public opinion. The meaning of the Summit could be summed up in the sentence - "finding the spirit of Lisbon"; which enabled the EU to set out the objective of becoming within the next ten years, "the most competitive knowledge-based...