contrarian strategy | contrarian investing | contrarian investment | contrarian investment strategy

in the absence of evidence to the contrary [ in the absence of proof to the contrary ]

Definition: Disorder characterized by repeated failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not acquired for personal use or monetary gain. The objects may instead be discarded, given away, or hoarded. This behaviour is usually accompanied by an increasing sense of tension before, and a sense of gratification during and immediately after, the act.

unless otherwise agreed [ save any stipulation to the contrary ]

except where a contrary intention appears

EU growth strategy [ Europe 2020 strategy | European growth initiative | EU Strategy for jobs and growth | EU strategy for jobs and smart, sustainable and inclusive growth | EU strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth | growth strategy of the EU | growth strategy of the European Union ]

counterclockwise | CCW | counter-clockwise | counter clock wise | anticlockwise | anti-clockwise

EU strategy [ political agenda of the EU | political agenda of the European Union | political priority of the EU | political priority of the European Union | strategic agenda for the EU | strategic agenda of the European Union | strategy of the EU | strategy of the European Union ]

EU energy policy [4.7] [ energy union | EU energy strategy | European Union energy policy | European Union energy strategy ]

Contrary to the present situation where the European Council is the last element in the decision-making process of the strategy, the European Council should steer the strategy as it is the body which ensures the integration of policies and manages the interdependence between Member States and the EU.

Rather, a central element of the sustainability strategy should be to develop the chain of policy measures that are needed to reach the projected objectives for 2050, beginning with political programmes that take effect over the long run, policy plans with medium-term effects, and specific measures geared towards the short term.

39. Regrets that, even when strategies are defined, the EU often does not manage to implement them, and is instead forced to take contingency and emergency action; recalls that this has notably been the case in the Sahel region, for which a very comprehensive and well-prepared EU strategy document (the 2011 EU Strategy for Security and Development in the Sahel) had been unanimously approved but did not lead to satisfactory implementation until the situation in Mali deteriorated dramatically; calls for a lessons-learned analysis of this particular case, as well as – more broadly – for improved early warning analysis of key volatile regions, in order to ...[+++]establish concrete conflict-prevention and mediation initiatives and thereby improve upstream action by operating a policy shift from reactive-centric approaches to a more adequate and efficient prevention-focused approach;

39. Regrets that, even when strategies are defined, the EU often does not manage to implement them, and is instead forced to take contingency and emergency action; recalls that this has notably been the case in the Sahel region, for which a very comprehensive and well-prepared EU strategy document (the 2011 EU Strategy for Security and Development in the Sahel) had been unanimously approved but did not lead to satisfactory implementation until the situation in Mali deteriorated dramatically; calls for a lessons-learned analysis of this particular case, as well as – more broadly – for improved early warning analysis of key volatile regions, in order to ...[+++]establish concrete conflict-prevention and mediation initiatives and thereby improve upstream action by operating a policy shift from reactive-centric approaches to a more adequate and efficient prevention-focused approach;