International rankings are one of the consequences of the implementation of the Organic Law, relative to the budget laws (LOLF), the launch of the Lisbon process and the listing of indicators for international comparison provided by the Observatoire des Sciences et Techniques.

UNESCO: Education

Neither seems ready to talk about the sort of labour and capital market deregulation which proved so successful in Britain, for example, and which the European Union has committed itself to as part of the Lisbon process, aimed at making Europe the world's most competitive region by 2010.

ECONOMIST: The neglected economy | The

Then attention will turn to the Czech Republic and Poland, whose presidents have yet to sign the Lisbon Treaty, completing the ratification process.

ECONOMIST: Ireland and the Lisbon Treaty

If the process drags into 2010, Lisbon's backers fear, a new Conservative government in Britain will withdraw its ratification and put the treaty to a referendum.

ECONOMIST: Germany and Europe

His country gave birth to the Lisbon agenda of 2000, an attempt to push forward the process of economic reform and liberalisation across Europe.

ECONOMIST: European Commission

And that process obviously will reach its culmination, as promised in Portugal, at Lisbon, at the NATO conference, will reach its culmination in 2014.

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