An internal French report on how Paris is performing in implementing economic reforms, included the EU's Lisbon agenda, shows France is lagging behind but also claims that the whole policy package should be radically revised.
The author of the report, economist and lawyer Laurent Cohen-Tanugi was appointed in October 2007 by the country's economy minister Christine Lagarde to look into the issue of Europe and its economic development in the context of globalisation.
According to its 2008 report, France recently slightly improved its scores due to labour reforms but it is still lagging behind the UK and Germany from among the big countries, as well as a group of smaller states leading the EU's table, mainly Denmark, Sweden and Austria.
The French report - expected to be taken up by French president Nicolas Sarkozy to open a debate about the future of the Lisbon package after 2010 - argues the EU should focus its efforts on industrial innovation, education training and new environmental technologies.
EuObserver
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