Press Release: Competitiveness Council backs Commission ‘partnership for growth and jobs’

The Competitiveness Council on 7 March 2005 welcomed the European Commission's 'growth and jobs' Communication to the Spring European Council. In this Communication the Commission recommended to focus on growth and jobs through fewer and clearer priorities, which needed to be identified and limited to a number of core areas, implemented through sharper policy instruments. The Competitiveness Council underlined that it had a key role to play in driving the new initiatives and structural reforms necessary to meet the Lisbon goals, by contributing to conditions which foster investment, innovation and greater competition, throughout the European Union.

European Commission: DG Internal Market: Update on the Internal Market: Councils, 2005 http://ec.europa.eu/comm/internal_market/councils/index_en.htm

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