He continued by stating that "it was not the Lisbon strategy that brought hardship to our kitchen table, but rather, it is the Member States which ignored it."
"Šodien ir skaidrs, ka ne jau Lisabonas stratēģija ir problēma, bet valstis, kas to ignorē," pauda Eiropas Liberāļu un demokrātu apvienības grupas priekšsēdētājs Graham WATSON .