Abstract
In March 2000, the European Union Heads of States and Governments met at the European council of Lisbon. This statement was the basis to what is called the "Lisbon strategy" or "Lisbon process/agenda", a politic but mostly economic development plan for the members States of the European Union. Nowadays, this ambitious goal has certainly lost the shining enthusiasm that it had provided at first. In the years that have followed the Lisbon council of 2000, the economic context evolved in an unfavorable way, the too precise and too numerous objectives have quickly seem to be almost completely out of reach and the agenda seemed more than overwhelmed. The Lisbon strategy was going into so deep water at its half-point review that the spring European Council of March 2005 had to give the process a second impulse by renewing and refocusing the agenda. This article will try to answer the following "everlasting" question: Is the Lisbon strategy an unattainable project?
