Following the collapse of the Lisbon Strategy and the unfolding of financial and economic crisis, the section explores key elements of an emerging EU post-Lisbon strategy in order to outline Europe’s reformulated ambitions for global leadership. As the European project’s internal crisis of policy-formulation, policy-coordination and legitimacy have been accentuated, the section will explore EU efforts to rearticulate itself as a stronger and more legitimate project of integration, assumed to be a pre-requisite for the success of a post-Lisbon strategy. The formulation of Europe 2020 and reactions to uneven development in the Euro area in the wake of the Greek crisis are important processes in the emergence of Post-Lisbon. However, while these recent developments seek to address the mounting challenges of the European project of integration, their articulation echoes the narrowness of scholarship which quite arguably has contributed to the precariousness of the situation.
