The present abstract provides a detailed summary in English of the Dutch Social and Economic Council’s advisory report Europe 2020: The New Lisbon Strategy, adopted in June 2009. The report responds to two sets of questions submitted by the Dutch Government, one concerning the Lisbon Strategy after 2010 and the other concerning the European Commission’s Social Policy Agenda.

Section 2 outlines the Council’s main recommendations. The remaining sections focus more specifically on the Government’s questions. Section 3 offers an evaluation of the Lisbon Strategy since 2005. Section 4 sets out the new policy agenda for the coming decade, while Section 5 discusses changes to the division of responsibilities and governance proposed by the Council.