Several member states will miss the European Commission's Saturday (15 October) deadline for submitting Lisbon Agenda action plans, but Brussels believes the scheme is on track to produce results next year.
The Lisbon Agenda calls on the EU to become the world's most competitive knowledge-based economy by 2010.
Member states tried to breathe new life into the flagging process this March by calling for national ideas on how to boost economic growth and employment over the next th...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.