The Lisbon Council concluded the year with a timely event on Innovation Union: European Priorities for the Post-Crisis World. In an insightful opening speech, Vincent van Quickenborne, minister for economy…
The Lisbon Council had the privilege of hosting the European launch of PISA 2009, a ground-breaking OECD study on international student performance that put education squarely on the policy-making agenda…
The High-Level Working Group on Skills and Human Capital convened under the timely theme Creating and Maintaining Human Capital in an Age of Transformation. During highly interactive breakout sessions key…
In a forceful intervention, Christian Bason, director, author and Ph.D fellow at MindLab, the Danish innovation agency, introduced his new book Leading Public Sector Innovation: Co-Creating for a Better Society.…
Two days before the European Council decided on a historic overhaul of euro-area economic governance, Olli Rehn, European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs delivered The 2010 Ludwig Erhard Lecture,…
Vivane Reding, vice-president of the European Commission and commissioner for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, vowed to use EU justice policy to strengthen the single digital market and announced that…