An EU Compass to regain competitiveness and secure sustainable prosperity

Today, the Commission presents the Competitiveness Compass, the first major initiative of this mandate providing a strategic and clear framework to steer the Commission’s work.

The Compass sets a path for Europe to become the place where future technologies, services, and clean products are invented, manufactured, and put on the market, while being the first continent to become climate-neutral.

Over the last two decades, Europe has not kept pace with other major economies due to a persistent gap in productivity growth. The EU has what is needed to reverse this trend with its talented and educated workforce, capital, savings, Single Market, unique social infrastructure, provided it acts urgently to tackle longstanding barriers and structural weaknesses that hold it back.

Read more here: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_339