Europe 2020 Strategy: A critical interim review

Policy Brief

16/03/2016

The Europe 2020 Strategy has, as essentially expected, more or less been shelved by the Juncker Commission.

The figures published in March this year are sobering. Halfway through the 2020 Strategy, the European Union is a long way from achieving the goals set. The high unemployment and the growing number of people in the EU who live in poverty and social exclusion are deeply alarming.

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