First informal Council for the EU president
Reserved support for "Europe 2020" The European leaders supported the proposed by the European Commission strategy "Europe 2020" for economic recovery of the Union in the next 10 years, but not quite. The 5 main targets of the strategy (in terms of employment, R&D, green energy, education and reduction of poverty) were approved b ...
Who is where before Europe 2020? Ever since the European Union launched the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs for the first time in 2000, aimed at making the European economy the most competitive in the world by 2010, the Centre for European Reform is making each year an analysis of the implementation of the strategy. This is ...
Europe 2020: smart, green, for everyone The European Commission officially presented its long-awaited economic strategy - Europe 2020, which is supposed to succeed the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs, and also represents the Commission's vision about the development of the Union in the next decade. Europe 2020 shows that the EU ha ...
EU leaders will take over the functions of ECOFIN With more questions than answers ended the first informal European Council under the presidency of the new European president Herman van Rompuy. The summit of EU leaders was planned when Mr Van Rompuy was nominated for the post after the entering into force of the Lisbon Treaty on the 1st of Dec ...
The economic revival of Europe. Second cut While something like a battle with neo-feudalism in the Bulgarian Academy of Science is going on, with a focus on the presence in it of the former communist secret service, the EU is on its way to release another impossible (for Bulgaria) task. It's true that the 52nd Bulgarian university in Per ...
The president of substitution Although he made his first visit in Brussels 3 years after Bulgaria joined the EU, the president of the country Gheorghi Parvanov decided to show himself as a patron of the discussion on EU's latest economic strategy Europe 2020. On March 12th, Parvanov called a press conference, claiming it wou ...
Europe 2020 or a second EU attempt to become the most competitive economy in the world EU leaders had to focus all their efforts and time on Thursday discussing the new strategy Europe 2020 which will replace the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs. In fact, this is the economic plan of the Union for the next 10 years of its development and shows the focus of member states on a Co ...
Reforms and an increased role of the EU leaders, will propose Van Rompuy EU leaders gathered in the Solvay library, situated in the Leopold park in Brussels for the first informal European Council, presided for the first time of the new EU president Herman van Rompuy. Before they went to the library though, all heads of state and government gathered in the building o ...
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