The EU must stay on course and be much more assertive, both at home and abroad
The EU should stick to its course, pursue the Green Deal and complete the single market. It needs to demonstrate its resolve and act united as a new – potentially hostile – US administration rolls in and shakes up the foundations of transatlantic cooperation and the world order. But it must also stand firm if […]
A critical first response to Mario Draghi’s competitiveness report
On 9 September 2024, Mario Draghi, the former Italian prime minister and former President of the European Central Bank, presented his long-awaited report on the EU economy and EU competitiveness. This is an immense report, 400 pages in total, containing a myriad of proposals to reform and rejuvenate a stagnant and sluggish EU economy, an […]
The EU according to Draghi – as competitive as needed, as sustainable as possible
Landing on Ursula von der Leyen’s desk just as she’s putting together the new College of Commissioners, the long-awaited report by Mario Draghi on ‘the future of European competitiveness’ totals almost 400 pages collaboratively drafted by two (invisible) teams in Brussels and Rome. Draghi‘s opus magnum doesn’t disappoint when it comes to length and ambition, […]
Digital aspects of the EU Single Market
The Single Market is essential both for internal cohesion and for the EU’s global competitiveness versus the United States and China. It seeks to ensure and enable the free flow of services, goods, capital and people within the EU/EEA; however, none of these four traditional dimensions of the Single Market have been fully achieved – […]
The single market is still the EU’s strategic imperative
CEPS’ emergence coincided with the reinvigoration of the internal market. In November 1982, when several foundations were deciding whether to offer assistance to get CEPS up and running, the first-ever Internal Market Council was held on the initiative of then-Commissioner Karl-Heinz Narjes. Since then, we’ve had 40 years of building the single market and despite […]