POLICY BENCHMARKING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: : Indicators and Ambiguities

摘要: The Lisbon process is intended to move the European Union (EU) towards a dynamic but socially inclusive knowledge-based economy. Policy benchmarking through ‘Open Method of Coordination’ being applied wide range relevant policy areas. This article considers indicators that are used in relation economy on one hand, social inclusion other. It examines have been selected, uses which they put and their appropriateness for coordination, learning performance improvement. explores three ambiguities or tensions reveal. First, argues part offspring monetary union, OMC track progress single future, rather than expose possible alternative futures trade-offs involve. Second, whereas goal economy, that...