Prime Minister Janez Jansa estimated on Monday that the amended Lisbon Strategy does not mean any additional work for Slovenia since key reforms envisaged in the strategy are already featured in the government programme for its current four-year term.
Jansa made the assessment on the sidelines of a panel gathering his ministers, the director of the Institute for Macroeconomic Analysis and Development (IMAD), a member of the government Strategic Council for Economic Development, a member of the European Parliament and European Commissioner Janez Potocnik.
The prime minister said he was pleased that the Lisbon Strategy has become more realistic in terms of its goals. He was also satisfied that, in addition to economic efficiency, the strategy talks about the quality of life and sustainable development.
According to Jansa, the strategy tackles a number of issues that Slovenia is currently facing, such as excessive regulation of the entrepreneurship sector or cooperation between research projects funded by the state on one side and those by the private sector on the other.
What is crucial, according to Jansa, is that the strategy envisages concrete mechanisms for measuring the progress of EU member states in implementing its goals.
Jansa said that the government has not taken a decision yet on who to appoint as a national coordinator for implementing the strategy. He said the job might be given to a new minister without portfolio in charge of development or to the ministers for economics affairs and regional development.
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