Closing Review
In 2009 Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt admitted:
Even if progress has been made it must be said that the Lisbon Agenda, with only a year remaining before it is to be evaluated, has been a failure.
The alleged failure of the Lisbon Strategy was widely commented on in the news and by member states leaders.
Spain's prime minister José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero pointed out that the non-binding character of the Lisbon Strategy contributed to the failure, and this lesson needed to be taken into account by the new Europe 2020 strategy.
Official appraisal of the Lisbon Strategy took place in March 2010 at a European Summit, where the new Europe 2020 strategy was also launched.
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