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...Indeed, the Europe 2020 strategy had a similarly ambitious predecessor that failed to deliver: the ill-fated Lisbon agenda, which was adopted with fanfare by E.U. leaders a decade ago with the aim of transforming Europe into "the world's most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy" by 2010. But the bloc fell far short of its goal of overtaking the U.S. and Japan, and even failed to meet its self-imposed economic targets. For example, that plan also called for E.U. research and development spending to increase to 3% of GDP, but only Sweden and Finland currently meet that...
...There were a number of problems with the Lisbon agenda, such as the fact it had too many targets and there were political splits on issues like opening up labor markets. But another issue was that E.U. leaders were simply unwilling to overhaul their economies - and there was no enforcement mechanism in place to put them into line. Ann Mettler, head of the Lisbon Council, a Brussels-based think tank, says European leaders have been too cautious about reform, backing off, for example, when it comes to tackling energy oligopolies and inefficient, formerly state-run telecom operators...
Robinson added that the issue may be broached at today’s Faculty meeting, though such an item is currently not listed on the pre-distributed agenda...
...student Kendra L. Krause said she was not concerned that Duncan’s agenda could short-change non-academic disciplines...
...capacity of Democrats to drive a policy agenda from 2011 onward, and the re-election efforts of President Obama, will be severely crippled if, as is quite conceivable, Republicans end up controlling seven of the eight most populous states - and possibly a staggering 30 of the biggest 35. That would include snatching some megaseats held by the Democrats and adding them to the beachhead the GOP now holds in California, Florida and Texas. (See pictures from the Republican National Convention...