Closing the delivery deficit: The future of economic governance in Europe

The EU has set itself a series of highly ambitious economic goals to fulfil in the next decade. Eurozone countries are committed to ensuring the longterm health of the single currency, which will mean further economic integration. The Union will need to incorporate successfully at least ten dynamic but diverse accession country economies. Above all, the EU is determined to meet the target, set in Lisbon in 2000, of becoming the “world’s most competitive knowledge-based economy” by 2010.