The relationship between the Lisbon Strategy and tax policy in the context of the economic crisis

Ten years after the collapse of the East Central European planned economic systems, the European Council set out a ten-year economic modernization agenda at its March 2000 session in Lisbon. The aim of the ambitious concept called Lisbon Strategy, is to make the European Union “the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion, and respect for the environment by 2010” (European Council, 2000).