Europe must improve its competitiveness if it wants to support its social model, invest in defense, and protect itself against the climate crisis. This is the main topic of the informal EU leaders’ meeting that is about to begin.
Greece comes to this discussion having put forward very specific proposals to reduce European bureaucracy, improve the functioning of the single market and competitiveness to ultimately benefit both businesses and European consumers.
Competitiveness in itself is a rather abstract concept if it is not combined with more and better-paid jobs and, above all, with better and lower prices on the European market, in order to tackle the cost-of-living crisis. If these things do not happen, it will be difficult to have the social support that is necessary for the critical decisions that must be taken from now on.
I will have the opportunity to focus more on energy market issues. It is clear that today the energy market in the European Union is not functioning satisfactorily. We need greater integration in the energy market so that we ultimately have lower energy prices in Europe, both for European consumers and for European businesses.
