European Economic Development Performance Achieving the Europe 2020 Goals at the Level of the European Union Submodels

The challenges faced by the EU and implicitly the European model of development are both new and complex. Achieving the Europe 2020 objectives can be a key point in the future decision and can offer the oportunity to analize the sustainability of the economic development model. Considering the failure of the Lisbon Strategy, the European Commission proposed for 2020 the achievement of five measurable objectives which refers to: employment, research and innovation, climate change, energy, education and the fight against poverty. This paper try to analyze the socio-economic performances of the European Union’ submodels, and the possibility that the submodels achieve the goales of Europa 2020 Strategy