Europe's 2020 Strategy: Big Business as Usual

The European Commission has published proposals for a new strategy, Europe 2020. Built on what many see as the failings of the Lisbon Agenda, the new strategy goes even further, proposing new powers for the Commission and extending the reach of the competitive agenda. Corporate Europe Observatory comments on the content, and finds the Commission's vision is all but shared with industry lobby group, the European Roundtable of Industrialists, which published its own vision document in February this year. The views of trade unions and NGOs do not seem to resonate with the Commission in quite the same way, the article finds. A separate appendix compares the details of the Commission's vision with the demands published by ERT.

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