Abstract
The Europe 2020 Strategy was proposed with a long-term vision to ensure prosperity, development, and competitiveness for the member countries. This strategy is divided into three main areas named “growth”. One of these is sustainable growth. This is an area of sustainability, where the partial targets are referred to as the “20-20-20 approach”, and includes a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, an increase in energy efficiency, and the sharing of renewable energy sources. However, questions arise, including: How do member states meet these targets? Which countries are leaders in this area? According to these stated questions, the aim of this article is to assess how EU countries are meeting the set targets for sustainable growth resulting from the Europe 2020 strategy and to identify the countries with the best results in this area. We looked for answers to these questions in the analysis of sustainable indicators, which were transformed into a synthetic measure for comparability of the resulting values. Finally, we identified the Baltic states, Nordic countries (European Union members), Romania, and Croatia as the best countries in fulfilling the sustainable growth aims. As sustainable development and resource efficiency are crucial areas for the future, it is important to consider these issues.
Highlights
The Lisbon Strategy was launched in Lisbon in March 2000, formulated and agreed to by the heads of state and governments of all European Union (EU) member states
One of them is sustainable growth. This is a summary term for three targets, named 20-20-20 [18]. We divided these goals into two groups according to the nature of their consequences, where the first group is formed by the stimulating factor and the second group is formed by non-stimulating factors
If we examine the average values for all EU countries, there is an increase in the shares of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption
Summary
The Lisbon Strategy was launched in Lisbon in March 2000, formulated and agreed to by the heads of state and governments of all European Union (EU) member states. It is a 10-year strategy with an ambitious goal of growth and jobs, at the end of which Europe would become the world’s most dynamically knowledge-based economy capable of sustainable growth and able to compete worldwide [1,2]. In 2005, due to the unsatisfactory results of the previous period, this strategy was renamed and innovated as the Growth and Jobs Strategy, or the renewed Lisbon Strategy This strategy enables the weakest countries to catch up with the living standards of the most developed countries in the EU. A major problem that created significant regional disparities at the national level was the ability to adopt new technologies
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