Gerolf Annemans

10. Reiterates that the CoFE was a failure, respects the understandable hesitation of the Council to follow up on its recommendations,...

18. Calls for the development of a European integrated capital market through a deepened capital markets union, in order to effectively connect savings with investment needs in a...

E. whereas both the Letta report, drafted by Enrico Letta and commissioned by the European Council, and the Draghi report highlight that the single market proved, from the beginning, to be a...

23. Underlines that the EU must place energy security and cheap, reliable energy at the heart of its institutional and economic framework; rejects a permanent European green...

24. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to boost the European defence industry and to improve standardisation and interoperability of equipment, and the sharing of...

M. whereas the Conference on the Future of Europe can be considered as a failure, since there is no appetite in the Council to follow up on...

N. whereas the Draghi report identifies digital transformation and the development of artificial intelligence (AI) as key drivers of future European competitiveness; whereas the EU has so far...

1. Takes note of the Draghi report, its findings and its call for action; supports the analysis that Europe is facing an existential challenge which requires enhanced...

2. Highlights the fact that, as stated in the Draghi report, all this can be achieved only if the EU urgently reorganises its institutional and economic governance, by making it...

3. Stresses that the key domains needing strategic policy reform to boost the EU’s competitiveness are the deepening of the European single market and capital markets union;...

5. Welcomes the efforts to refocus and simplify the EU’s work through strategic prioritisation and institutional efficiency; calls for a strengthening of the EU’s capacity to act where it adds...

8. Warns that a possible extension of qualified majority voting (QMV) and the ordinary legislative procedure to more policy fields, risks to...

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22. Stresses that a full and permanent established fiscal capacity for the EU would consolidate the Union as a transfer union, and...

B. whereas a wide gap in GDP has opened between the EU and the United States, primarily caused by a more significant slowdown in productivity in Europe and the EU’s failure to capitalise on the...

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25. Welcomes the AI continent action plan for the development of an EU ‘AI model’, based on cooperation between public and private actors; calls for a significant increase in investment in the...

O. whereas the Draghi report stresses that the EU must strengthen its strategic autonomy and defence capacity by overcoming market fragmentation, enhancing interoperability and boosting...

G. whereas EU support for both public and private investment is constrained by the precarious budgetary situation of a multitude of core industrial Member States;...