Portugal may be denied its next tranche of rescue money if Lisbon doesn't come up with fiscal measures that can pass muster with the country's Constitutional Court.
He then found it politically expedient to offer a referendum on a new EU constitution before the 2005 election but the re-elected Labour government then decided the Lisbon treaty wasn't quite a new constitution after all.
But some analysts believe that the Kok report doesn't come up with the sort of innovative policies and thinking needed to make the Lisbon targets a reality.