Press Release: EU needs to improve productivity to meet Lisbon goal of greater competitiveness

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Series Details IP/02/753 (23.5.02)
Publication Date 23/05/2002
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The European Commission published its 2002 Competitiveness Report on 23 May 2002. The annual competitiveness reports identify trends and key factors behind growth and productivity developments in the EU. The 2002 report focuses on three special themes: human capital; productivity performance of EU services; and sustainable development in EU manufacturing. Also, and for the first time, the Commission has analysed the relationship between competition policy and enterprise policy. The report makes comparisons across the Member States and with the EU's most important competitors. One of the main conclusions is that recent trends in EU productivity growth are not sufficient to attain the economic, social and employment objectives set in the Lisbon strategy in the remaining years to 2010.

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