From an economic point of view, the Lisbon Strategy’s aim is to transform Europe into a power able to compete on equal terms with the US today and the great Asian countries. But this aim does not appear to be creating a European identity, as the euro has.
从经济的角度，里斯本战略的目标是把欧洲改造成能与今日的美国和伟大的亚洲国家平等抗衡的经济力量。但上述目标并没有像欧元那样让欧洲融为一体。很多国家里，“权力”在政治上根本立不住脚。毕竟在国家权力和欧洲权力之间找不到任何一缕联系。如果我们希望欧洲变得更加合理，就必须说明怎样在这两个领域间建立联系。