In order to reinforce coordination of reforms and enhance the multilateral surveillance process in Council, Member States should set out detailed and concrete actions addressing their specific policy responses to the country-specific recommendations and points to watch in their national reform programmes and the subsequent annual implementation reports, and furthermore the Commission should provide more analytical underpinning to the proposed recommendations,
Thus, the Council recommends that Member States should take action along the lines set out in the Annex and report on their followup in their next programmes in the framework of the renewed Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs. [extract]
Council Recommendation of 14 May 2008 on the 2008 update of the broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and the Community and on the implementation of Member States employment policies
OJEU L 139, 29.5.2008, p. 57