Lisbon Agenda Implementation: the Example of Slovenia funds) will also play a significant role. Therefore, several measures 4 have been proposed to improve Slovenia's administrative and absorption capacity for EU funds. Cohesion policy in Slovenia will pursue its current course over the next programme period, focusing on the objectives of employment growth. The Lisbon-orientation of cohesion policy is reflected in the substantial financial resources allocated by Slovenia for the European Social Fund programmes and support of programmes promoting competitiveness and innovation. In the next programme period, Slovenia will elaborate these programmes and increase its expenditure on them. The reforms in the area of education and employment will provide the regulatory conditions for the efficient use of funds and the required increase in absorption capacity. Slovenia will extend the current group of programme implementers and connect them more closely with the needs of the business sector. The second area where the Lisbon goals can be integrated with cohesion policy is by complementing measures to boost economic growth and employment with measures from various other areas that can produce catalytic effects. The Lisbon Strategy goals are thus also included in, for example, measures of the rural development programme(entrepreneurial revamping of rural areas, forming producer partnerships for a joint market presence and measures for the commercial activation of nature and cultural heritage). Cohesion policy in Slovenia focuses on ensuring the conditions for economic growth and national competitiveness. Its task is to build development­conducive infrastructure and generate the required labour potential and a creative mindset in society. CONCLUSIONS The essence of the original and renewed Lisbon Strategy is structural reform. The main question on all governments' political agenda is not whether to reform 4. Measures:(i) designate one central body for the planning and harmonisation of national development policies;(ii) appoint one managing authority in the area of structural funds; the areas of the cohesion fund and environmental and transport infrastructure will be assigned one managing authority each; for cohesion policy as a whole(structural funds and Cohesion Fund) there will be one joint payment authority;(iii) the strategic governance of cohesion policy will be centralised in one body, which will be ensured by the preparation and monitoring of the National Strategic Reference Framework; and(iv) cohesion policy funds must be itemised under one budgetary heading. 111