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The Lisbon Strategy and Ethnic Minorities: Rights and Economic Growth

Author(s): Tove H Malloy
Publisher(s): European Center for Minority Issues (ECMI), Flensburg, Germany
Date of publication: Apr 2005
Issue number: 13
Format: PDF
Pages: 13
URL: www.ecmi.de
Series: ECMI Issue Briefs

Description: This paper discusses the EU's Lisbon Strategy to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, highlighting the problems of ethnic minorities. The paper introduces the Lisbon strategy and its problems, outlines the strategy's provisions for ethnic minorities and explores the link between ethnic minority inclusion and economic growth. The paper calls for a recognition that ethnic minorities constitute an untapped asset to society and deserve considerable investment.

General note: © 2005 European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)

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