• History of the EES
• Implementation of the EES
• The future of the EES

European Employment Strategy (EES)

The future of the EES

In 2010, the European Employment Strategy (EES) will be phased out as conceived in the framework of the Lisbon strategy. Discussions are underway on the future shape, priorities, themes and focus for the EES in the post-Lisbon period after 2010.

The thematic experts of the EEO have given an important contribution to the internal discussions at the Commission level about the future of the EES. The development of employment policy in the EU leading up to the European Employment Strategy 1997 (Walsh, 2009) and Formulation of the European Employment Strategy for the post-Lisbon period in the context of economic crisis (Weiler, 2009)

A number of contributions to the debate about the future of the EES and the overall Lisbon strategy are detailed below.

Public consultation on the future EU 2020 strategy is available at http://ec.europa.eu/eu2020/index_en.htm

European Union institutions

• European Commission

Social Protection Committee, Growth, Jobs and Social Progress in the EU, September 2009, available at
http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=89&newsId=596&furtherNews=yes

President Barroso's Political Guidelines for the next Commission, available at
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/president/pdf/press_20090903_EN.pdf

Non-paper on the Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs after 2010, 22 November 2008, available at
http://www.euromonde2015.eu/IMG/pdf/plis_1.pdf

• Committee of the Regions
  Discussion document on the future of the Lisbon strategy post 2010, April 2009, available at
  http://cor.europa.eu/pages/EventTemplate.aspx?view=detail&id=d132064d-ac53-45b1-89d8-ca0bc71d90dd

• European Parliament
  Ten Priorities for the EPP (European People’s Party) Group 2009-2014, Putting people at the heart of Europe, available at
  http://stream.epp-ed.eu/Activities/docs/year2009/2009-2014group-priorities-en1.pdf
  

Party of European Socialists, Strengthening Social Europe in a post-2010 Lisbon strategy available at
http://old.manifesto2009.pes.org/uploads/files/GVA_Eurosocialists_Social_Europe_EN_0.pdf  

• European Council
  Towards Sustainability: Eco-Efficient Economy in the context of the post 2010 Lisbon Agenda and the EU Sustainable Development Strategy, available at http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/envir/110627.pdf

• European Economic and Social Committee
  Conference "The Post-2010 (Lisbon) Strategy – A way out of the Crisis", available at http://www.eesc.europa.eu/lisbon_strategy/presentation/index_en.asp

European Social Partners

• BUSINESSEUROPE, Putting Europe back on track, European Growth and Jobs Strategy post-2010, available at
  http://www.businesseurope.eu/Content/Default.asp?PageID=425
  
• ETUC, The climate change, the new industrial policies and the ways out of the crisis, Resolution, available at
  http://www.etuc.org/a/6594
  
• Eurociett (European Confederation of Private Employment Agencies), Shaping the EU Post-2010 Lisbon Strategy, available at http://www.euro-ciett.org/index.php?id=113&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=83&cHash=487f80e454
  
• The e-Skills Industry Leadership Board, e-Skills in the post-Lisbon i-2010 Strategy, policy statement, available at
  http://www.e-skills-ilb.org/docs/i-2010_post_Lisbon_Strategy_ILB_Statement.pdf

EU Member States

• France, A European Strategy for Globalisation: Perspectives Beyond 2010, available at http://www.strategie.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/Version_Clean_beyond2010.pdf
  
• Euroworld 2015, A European Strategy for Globalisation, report available at http://www.euromonde2015.eu/spip.php?page=sommaire_en#
  
• Denmark’s Non-paper, Reflections on the Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs beyond 2010, available at
  http://www.ft.dk/samling/20081/almdel/EUU/Bilag/298/662581.PDF http://www.ft.dk/samling/20081/almdel/EUU/Bilag/298/662581.pdf
  
• Dutch Social and Economic Council’s advisory report Europe 2020: The New Lisbon Strategy, adopted in June 2009, available at http://www.ser.nl/en/Publications/Publications/2009/2009_04.aspx

 

• Position Paper of Portugal on post-2010, available at
  http://www.estrategiadelisboa.pt/InnerPage.aspx?idCat=667&idMasterCat=334&idLang=2&site=lisbon-strategy
  
• Spanish position of the Lisbon strategy post-2010, available at http://www.estrategiadelisboa.pt/Document/Texto_Ignacio_Conde.pdf
  
• UK Local Government Association, Revision of the post 2010 Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs, available at http://www.lga.gov.uk/lga/core/page.do?pageId=18822

NGOs

• European Anti-Poverty Network, Strengthening the social dimension in Lisbon, available at http://www.eapn.eu/content/view/257/10/lang,en/

 

• Social Platform’s (a platform of European NGOs) recommendations for a post-Lisbon strategy, available at http://www.socialplatform.org/Policy.asp?DocID=9531
  
• Spring Alliance’s Manifesto for a New Europe, (For a European Union that puts people and planet first) available at http://www.springalliance.eu/manifesto

Academic and think-tank publications

• Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), The Post-2010 Lisbon Process: The Key Role of Education in Employment and Competitiveness, available at http://www.ceps.eu/node/1591
  
• Deutsche Bank Research, Stress test of a different sort: A post-Lisbon Agenda to make the EU fit for the future, available at http://www.dbresearch.com

 

• European Sustainable Development Network, Post-2010: The Future of the EU sustainable development and its Interface with the Lisbon Process, available at

http://www.sd-network.eu/?k=ESDN%20workshops&s=workshop%20documentation&year=2008a

• Kellermann, C., Ecke, M., and S. Petzold, A New Growth Strategy for Europe beyond 2010, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, available at http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/id/ipa/06219.pdf
  
• The Polish Institute of International Affairs, New Lisbon Strategy after 2010: Governance Reform, By Marcin Koczor, available at http://www.pism.pl/zalaczniki/Strategic_File_9.pdf