This was first published as part of Growth and jobs: reshaping the EU’s ‘Lisbon Strategy’ by EurActiv.com on Tuesday 23rd June.
Besides the economic recession, EU officials have already identified a number of underlying challenges and opportunities that will shape the future Lisbon Agenda after 2010:

Globalisation: The rapid emergence of new economic powers implies a fundamental [...]

Both EurActiv.com and Blogactiv.eu are attending the Innovation Days event in Lisbon, Portugal, which has been arranged by EUREKA. Like the European Union, Eureka has a rotating Chair and Portugal are the incumbents.
The event is being held in the EXPO 98 (FIL) centre and is on an impressive scale.
EUREKA are quite rightly shouting about their successes [...]

This story was first published on 9th June 2009 by EurActiv.com.
Just hours after the EU election results were known, leading MEPs began to discuss ‘grand’ political alliances for appointing the next European Commission and Parliament presidents.
Joseph Daul, the chairman of the centre-right EPP-ED group, threw down the gauntlet yesterday (8 June), by proposing a grand [...]

From the EurActiv.com Innovation correspondent:
Europe is in desperate need of an Innovation Czar charged with fixing the EU’s fragmented innovation policy.
Dr Wolfgang Plischke, a leading thinker in the chemicals industry, says Europe’s innovation policy must be harmonised under the guidance of a high-level official within the European Commission.
He suggests giving the next European Commission President the [...]

Dan Luca: Romanians abroad want to impact on their country
Thinking ahead about the 2014 election, we need European leaders who can campaign for two or three years, like in the US, Dan Luca, candidate for the European elections based in Brussels, told Blogactiv in an interview.
You are one of the many Romanians working in Brussels [...]