The European banking system must be turned into a banking union with the ECB responsible for prudential supervision. The fiscal compact must be implemented quickly, and progress on harmonizing fiscal policies should continue.

European leaders recognize that, without growth, debt burdens will continue to grow, and that austerity by itself is an anti growth strategy.

This intergovernmental approach lay behind the Lisbon Agenda s failure to deliver the results needed to make Europe more competitive and dynamic by 2010, and the same shortcomings will bedevil its successor, the new Europe 2020 strategy.

A Strategic Rallying Cry for Europe

Europe s leaders need to put private investment at the center of their growth strategy by devising policies that open the gates to large potential flows.

A Less is More Growth Strategy for Africa

Europe s Poisoned Chalice of Growth

Europe s Uneven Growth Challenge

Europe s Misguided Search for Growth

Europe s Dysfunctional Growth Compact

But Putin and his siloviki (political allies whose power base is in the security apparatus) seem to prefer an inertia strategy, the worst of the Russia 2020 scenarios.

What remains missing is an economic growth strategy for the crisis countries but, given mounting unrest in southern Europe, such a strategy is inevitable.

Domestic demand led growth will be a more reliable strategy than export led growth.

The Committee welcomes the adoption of the Framework for Education Development into 2020, a strategic plan for the reform and development of the education sector in the State party.

China has made a conscious strategic decision to alter its growth strategy.

It was also implementing a pro poor strategy that favoured growth and employment.

Overcoming Europe s Twin Growth Challenges

Europe needs a growth strategy to put this political genie back in the bottle.

A new strategy under way for South Eastern Europe will be ready for implementation.

Growth in the United States and parts of Europe returned.

The industrial growth rate was the lowest in Eastern Europe.

They are the first to concede that their growth and development strategy is at a critical juncture.

But Europe cannot build an industrial strategy on cheap energy.

Last but not least, any solution presupposes the most important ingredient of all an effective EU strategy to revive and sustain growth in southern Europe.

Europe s maritime security strategy has long been founded on two key tenets.

The economic crisis destroyed illusions of sustained energy fueled growth through at least 2020, and the hubris that went with it.

We are now pursuing an economic strategy that is pro growth, pro poor and pro job.

Debt burdens remain crushing, and Europe s economy remains unable to grow.

With great foresight, Europe s leaders concluded that it was their economies lack of integration that was keeping Europe from growing as strongly as the US and Japan.

One strategy assumes that Europe desperately needs the policies of this deeper union now.

From the outset of the Syrian conflict, the US and its European allies have lacked a strategy. Is their goal to end the civil war or bring about regime change?

First, Europe does not have an Asian strategy or TPP equivalent.

An enlightened strategy must encourage China to grow green, as opposed to growing rapidly now and facing massive environmental costs later.

In fairness, some believe that cutting the budget is a sufficient growth strategy.

There is an alternative an economic growth strategy supported by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.

Slow growth there, especially in Europe, is economically depressing.

Europe does not need Asia s rates of economic growth.

Europe has set a goal of cutting emissions by 30 below 1990 levels by 2020 if there is an ambitious global agreement.

The Commission s Europe 2020 initiative sets specific targets for raising school completion rates and employment levels for all EU citizens.

That blueprint provides the national framework to spearhead youth development through 2020, the year in which Malaysia aspires to achieve developed nation status.

With countries headed toward growth at different speeds, global strategy must continue to be a priority.

They could contrast their high growth rates with Europe s high levels of debt.

Merkel has already welcomed Hollande s ideas for a growth plan for Europe.

They foresee years and even decades of slow growth in Europe.

And, although Asia is now America s strategic priority, Europe is still the partner with which Americans have the most in common.