The World Tonight 14 November 2008 As a global summit is called on the economy, the discussion with Laurent Cohen-Tanugi is based on the prospects for the future and looks back to the first Bretton Woods summit. Book synopsis of the English edition of the Report by Peter Lang Publishing Group (October 2008). “EuroWorld 2015 : A European Strategy for Globalisation” is the product of six months' work and extensive Europewide consultations within the framework of a mission entrusted to Laurent Cohen-Tanugi by the French government ahead of France's presidency of the European Union. It provides the first assessment of the Lisbon strategy - generally presented as “the European response to globalisation” - established at the initiative of a Member State since its 2005 relaunch, as well as an analysis of the new challenges and opportunities facing the EU in the years to come. Against that background, the Cohen-Tanugi report demonstrates that in spite of its merits, the Lisbon strategy no longer represents a sufficient European response to globalisation because of its intrinsic shortcomings, but also because it merely constitutes an internal reform agenda designed to adapt the European economies and societies to globalisation without an attempt to influence it. The report advocates a more ambitious strategy beyond 2010 that includes, along with a more effective innovation-based competitiveness agenda (“Lisbon Plus”), an external (...)