The European Policy for the Development of an Information Society: the Right Path?*

José Luis Gómez‐barroso, Claudio Feijóo and Edvins Karnitis

Journal of Common Market Studies, 2008, vol. 46, issue 4, 787-825

Abstract: The end of 2005 marked the closure of one stage in the European strategy for the promotion of the information society (the eEurope programme) and the start of the next one (i2010). This seems to be a good time for assessing the results achieved to date by the community policy in this area and analysing whether the correct approach has been adopted. Despite the satisfaction shown in certain official appraisals, the picture resulting from consulting different classifications globally measuring the adaptation of countries to the information society is not that optimistic. Only the European Union leaders in this field (the Nordic countries) have improved their positions, broadening the gap with the rest: western European countries have lost ground (or at least have not improved) in the rankings, the southern countries do not seem to have corrected their deficiencies and the indices for the new Member States have not evolved as expected or have even deteriorated in some cases. Even though becoming one of the most competitive and dynamic knowledge‐based economies in the world was the first Leitmotiv of the Lisbon strategy, the interpretation of the documents connected to the definition of the new stage in the strategy led to doubts over whether the European Union has a clear notion on the course of action to take in order to make progress on the information society a matter of priority.

Date: 2008
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