En la Cumbre de Lisboa no se pudo alcanzar este objetivo en su totalidad, quizá debido a la precipitación con la que concluyó, y ni la Unión Europea ni la Unión Africana quisieron o pudieron conceder una función estructural a los parlamentos ni a la sociedad civil, en África ni en Europa.
The Lisbon Summit was not able to achieve this in full, perhaps because of the haste with which it was concluded, and neither the European Union nor the African Union wanted or was able to give a structural role to parliaments and civil society, in Africa or Europe.