A few days after its adoption by heads of state and government at their mid-June Brussels summit, the ‘Renewed’ EU Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS) was the focus of a well-attended public event organised by IEEP in co-operation with the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) on 22 June. Over 100 people participated in this forum hosted by IEEP Board Chair Caroline Jackson MEP in the European Parliament in Brussels and entitled ‘From Lisbon to Gothenburg and back again? Perspectives on the renewed EU SDS’.