[eccr] European Commission report concludes EU not competitive enough to achieve Lisbon goals

Title: European Commission report concludes EU not competitive enough to achieve Lisbon goals

Commission report concludes EU not competitive enough to achieve Lisbon goals

In short:
The Commission's 2002 competitiveness report, released on 23 May, concludes that recent trends in EU productivity growth are not sufficient to attain the economic, social and employment objectives set in the Lisbon strategy in the remaining years to 2010. 
 

Bried news:
This year's report focuses on three special themes: 

*    human capital; 
*    productivity performance of EU services; 
*    sustainable development in EU manufacturing. 
The main conclusions of the report are: 

*    education and skills are a key factor behind competitiveness, growth and employment; 
*    the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), innovation and market liberalisation are factors which explain productivity growth in services; 
*    enterprise policy and competition policy are cornerstones for achieving high and sustainable productivity growth; 
*    the EU's environmental impact has declined over the last 20 years, despite continued growth. 
This is the 6th edition of the Commission's Report on the European competitiveness since a 1994 Industry Council Resolution established the basis for the Competitiveness Report. 

Source:
http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe/?targ=1&204&OIDN=1503496