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

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.

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.

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.

But Europe cannot build an industrial strategy on cheap energy.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Without implementation of the package, slightly more than half of Europe s energy needs would be met by imported fossil fuel by 2020, compared to 50 today.

When a seat on a plane or a room in a hotel is not sold on the day, its revenue is lost.

The SAICM is developing an overarching policy strategy to achieve by 2020 that chemicals are used and produced in ways that lead to the minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment. At the March 2005 African regional consultation on development of the SAICM, participants noted that achieving the 2020 goal_

Relatively speaking, 2020 is an eternity away.

According to the blog, the novel will last until 2020.

The Americans should not leave Afghanistan until 2020.

I am determined to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games.

Europe must develop a long term strategy tied to programs and monitoring mechanisms that will deliver real change on the ground.

In both of these areas, Roma fall so far behind their fellow citizens that targeted measures to close the gap should be an integral part of the Europe 2020 plan.

The government attached high priority to the development of the curriculum and the methodology of teaching, which was based on a strategy for education up to the year 2020 that encompassed the promotion of self learning, the use of information, communication technology and environmental awareness.

To meet this challenge, we have designed an economic strategy that rests on three pillars Europe, fiscal consolidation, and competitiveness.

My main goal, though, is the 2020 Olympic Games.

When EU leaders met last spring to assess progress, they pitifully recognized that the Lisbon Strategy s goal was unlikely to be met.

To meet this challenge, we have designed an economic strategy that rests on three pillars Europe, fiscal consolidation, and competitiveness.

This will require a Europe able to build deep strategic relationships with all the key players in our increasingly multi polar world.

It offers no strategy for overcoming the crisis in the south of Europe, which means that the threat to the eurozone has not been removed.

Europe, Germany in particular, has been highly critical of the US approach of placing its central bank at the center of its recovery strategy.

So Europe needs a short term growth strategy to supplement its financial support package and its plans for fiscal consolidation.

As a result, its partners trade calculus will always be shaped by strategic considerations, which are not a factor for them when dealing with 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.

Global meat consumption is predicted to double by 2020.

The Russian Federation intends to double its nuclear generating capacity by 2020.

Of course, it is up to Ukrainians to defend their democracy, but Europe is at fault as well, because the EU lacks a grand strategy toward the East. The moral and strategic vision of the 1990 s, which culminated in the EU s big bang of eastward expansion, has exhausted itself.

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

As a major player in the green technology market set to triple in value by 2020 Europe could regain competitiveness and secure its role in the future global economy.

Thirty six per cent of Europeans will be aged 60 or over by 2050, and, despite increasing life expectancy, continued low fertility will mean the continent s population will begin to dwindle by 2020.

If Germany and France don t quickly resolve their differences and find a joint strategic answer to the crisis, they will damage themselves and Europe as a whole.

The EU s eastern policy should not be seen as philanthropy, but as a strategy promoting clear cut pan European interests.

The city is expected to reach a population of 350,000 by 2020.

Completion strategy