If EU institutions are to regain trust and relevance, they need to articulate concrete policies and deliver on issues that bear directly on citizens’ interests – youth unemployment, urban planning, health care, bio-tech research, energy conservation, transport, and aging. All of these issues were an integral part of the EU’s ambitious Lisbon Strategy (which in 2000 promised to make Europe the world’s most competitive economy by 2010), and all were quickly hijacked by national political agendas.
如果欧盟制度要重新赢得信任和关联，就必须出台具体政策，对与欧洲公民利益直接相关的问题——青年人失业、城市规划、卫生、生物技术研究、节能、运输和老龄化等——给出答案。所有这些问题都是雄心勃勃的欧盟里斯本战略（Lisbon Strategy，于2000年提出到2010年将欧洲建设成全世界最具竞争力的经济体）的组成部分，但很快被各国政治日程绑架了。这样的情况决不能出现第二次。