The communique described the compromise as "a medium-term strategy."

This was very much the approach of the Thatcher government's medium-term financial strategy in the early and mid-1980s.

Monetarism had run into the sands long before Lawson himself effectively buried it, along with the medium-term strategy, in 1985.

It does not seem to be part of a coherent energy policy with short-term, medium-term and long-term strategies.

Our medium-term economic strategy is in a position to address the challenges of the acceding countries.

To restore this confidence, we need to set out a very clear medium-term strategy.

The programme spells out the medium-term budgetary strategy until 2013.

Of course, a medium-term strategy must also be further developed.

For this reason it is particularly regrettable that it is only a medium-term strategy until 2000.

The national action plans form part of a medium-term strategy, but it is important to give the process new impetus.