The Lisbon Strategy, stemming from 2000:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/summits/lis1_en.htm

TL;DR from bureaucratese: to make the EU "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" capable of sustainable economic growth with more jobs and greater social cohesion.

As of 2026, everyone can see for themselves what the previous long game has delivered. Not even that social cohesion; everyone is fighting over entitlements and blaming someone else (boomers, immigrants, techbros, childless people) for ruining the system.

I mean, techbros are the curse on humanity regardless of where you live. That part is 100% true.

But also, blaming boomers and childless people is mostly an American thing as far as I can tall.

So like, you got only the immigrants right, but again, America is no different then EU there.