The paper examines the Lisbon Strategy of European Union and Cohesion Policy of European Union with the aim of understanding collaborative dimensions in line with being knowledge societies and coping with international competitiveness. While the year of 2005 reflects a re-launch of the Lisbon...

The aim of this article is to identify diversity between the EU-15 and the New Members in their implementation of the Lisbon Strategy in the period 2000-2010. By analyzing a set of structural indicators, we aim to fill a gap in the literature: a lack of publications providing complex evaluation...

The need for monitoring countries’ overall performance in sustainable development (SD) is widely recognized, but the methods for aggregating vast amounts of empirical data remain rather crude. This paper examines the so-called ‘benefit of doubt’ weighting method as a tool for identifying...

Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...

This study addresses the measurement of two composite Lisbon strategy indices that quantifies the level and patterns of development for ranking countries. The first index is nonparametric labelled as Lisbon strategy index (LSI). It is composed of six components: general economics, employment,...

This paper highlights the question of Muslim integration in Europe from the recent perspective of the social integration of non-nationals in the EU, put forward by the European Commission (2007). While there is a never-ending debate on Islamism, Islamist terrorism and the identity of Europe...