Looking for the meaning of the word strategy in different dictionaries I have come across the following entries:

1. STRATEGIA – Italian – abilità nel raggiungere lo scopo voluto
   
2. STRATEGY – English - an elaborate and systematic plan of action
   
3. Stratégie – French
   
4. Rei militaris scientia (scienza della guerra) – bellica ars – belli ratio (condotta generale della guerra) – praecepta imperatorial (regole della strategia) – Latin
   
   The word STRATEGY has been translated in more languages. It was born in the semantic field of “war” as “the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war”. Today the wordkeeps its second meaning. The first meaning refers to an elaborate and systematic plan of action.
   
   Analyzing the PRESIDENCY CONCLUSIONS of the LISBON EUROPEAN COUNCIL 23 AND 24 MARCH 2000 has we understood in the depth, the aims, goals, objectives, of the STRATEGY of Lisbon.
   
   It is organized into seven sections.
   I. PREPARING FOR ENLARGEMENT
   
   A STRATEGIC GOAL FOR THE NEXT DECADE
   PREPARING THE TRANSITION TO A COMPETITIVE
   DYNAMIC AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY
   MODERNISING THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL MODEL BY INVESTING IN PEOPLE AND BUILDING AN ACTIVE WELFARE STATE
   PUTTING DECISIONS INTO PRACTICE: A MORE COHERENT AND SYSTEMATIC APPROACH
   
   II. COMMON EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE POLICY
   III. WESTERN BALKANS
   IV. RUSSIA
   V. INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONFERENCE
   VI. OUTERMOST REGIONS
   • ANNEX
   
   The first section is arranged into 4 sub–sections. Each one has a title and many sub-titles that illustrate different goals.
   
   A STRATEGIC GOAL FOR THE NEXT DECADE
   The new challenge
   The text explains how the new dispute will improve the European Union in different aspects. In other words different changes may invigorate the Community's policies. To do this the Union needs
   • To set a clear strategic goal
   • agree a challenging programme
   o for building knowledge infrastructures
   o enhancing innovation and economic reform
   o modernising social legislation and education systems.
   
   The Union's strengths and weaknesses
   • The euro has been successfully introduced and is giving benefits for the European economy.
   • The internal market is largely complete and is providing tangible benefits for consumers and businesses.
   • The enlargement will create new opportunities for growth and employment.
   • These strengths should not distract our attention from a number of weaknesses. (For exaple more than 15 million Europeans are still out of work.)
   
   The way forward
   The section explains how the Union has today set itself a new strategic goal for the next decade: to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growht with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion.
   
   The aim of the Lisbon Special European Council of 23-24 March 2000 was to invigorate the Community's policies, against the fall of the most promising economic climate for a generation in the Member States.
   
   The technological challenge
   Information and communication technologies represent both a major confront and a significant opportunity for job’s creation. The Commission intends to improve the quality and quantity of jobs in the European Union.
   
   A knowledge-based society
   The inverse relationship between level of education and rate of unemployment is becoming more pronounced. Europe must raise the educational level of school-leavers. Teaching and research should be better coordinated at European level. This can be obtained by creating networks of national and joint research programmes.
   
   Making Europe more competitive is very important and the potential of the euro must provide an opportunity to integrate the European financial markets hence it provedes benefits for consumers and businesses.
   
   Modernising and strengthening the European social model
   In its contribution to the preparations for the Lisbon European Council, the Commission emphasised that the European social model includes resources to support the transition to a knowledge economy. Social integration will be promoted by encouraging work. In promoting social conclusiom the Commission has accorded these objectives. It has been very active in combating racism and xenophobia, in promoting equality of opportunity between men and women and in its tries to help the disabled.