Tag: Mario Draghi Report on Future of Europe’s Competitiveness

The EU Needs to Look Beyond Trade for Growth

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Sounds like a crazy statement to make about the world’s largest trading bloc, comprising 400 million people, you may think. But not if you consider the EU’s own aspirations and ambitions, captured in Mario Draghi’s voluminous report. The EU’s own predicament faced with the raging Ukranian conflict with Russia on the one hand, and with… Continue reading The EU Needs to Look Beyond Trade for Growth

Weak Economic Growth, Big Plans on the Anvil

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It’s been a long time since I last wrote on the UK and the EU economies, which was  just around the time of their elections in 2024 and not since then have I considered how they’re faring. Of course, France had its own very consequential election soon after the EU elections, and the big one… Continue reading Weak Economic Growth, Big Plans on the Anvil