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@max_bank Hi Max, the Draghi report isn’t really saying anything that hasn’t been discussed for many years, but is useful in drawing many strands together. For instance, I’ve been working with a team for ages on a program for SMEs that big corporations don’t have the staff or local reach to deliver and relies on scale at grassroots across the trade bloc. That’s super hard to achieve without a range of things Draghi has referred to.

@sdjohns Thanks for your feedback, @sdjohns. My point is not that the whole content of the Draghi report is problematic. There are many good proposals in there.
However, the process of writing the report was intransparent, civil society did not have much access and big companies had rather good access to Draghi and his team.
Also, there are good other reports out there that could also be referenced on specific issues by von der Leyen.

@max_bank It’s a very broad framework, we just have to be very specific about civil society requests. The wellbeing of civil society partly assumes and depends on European competitiveness, but also drives it. In Britain’s case, for illustration purposes, I believe the poor state of public services/infrastructure and a toxic civil society is undermining morale (Keynesian ‘animal spirits’ for the economists), productivity and therefore economic competitiveness.