El 8 de noviembre de 2024, el Consejo Europeo realizó una declaración en base a los Informes Letta y Draghi, enfocada en el déficit de innovación y productividad de la Unión Europea que repercuten de forma directa en la competitividad europea.
Se destacan como medidas a seguir la necesidad de una nueva estrategia de profundización del mercado único junto con el avance en la unión de los mercados de capitales europeos que permita la expansión de las empresas y asegure la competitividad de la UE en el sector de tecnologías críticas. También la descarbonización de la industria en conjunto con la soberanía energética, la simplificación del marco regulatorio, la mejora de la investigación e innovación, la aceleración de la transformación digital industrial y la implementación de una política comercial ambiciosa, firme, abierta y sostenible.
Por último, en línea con el retorno de la política industrial, el Consejo Europeo solicita a la Comisión Europea la presentación urgente de una estrategia industrial global para una industria competitiva y un empleo de calidad.
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Real Instituto Elcano
"The EU is less dynamic in its trade in services (suggesting regulatory and administrative barriers in the single market); it has a higher level of private investment as a percentage of GDP, but its venture capital investment is much lower (limiting the development of cutting-edge companies); it falls slightly behind the US in public investment, although its fiscal sustainability is better; it spends less on R&D+i, which affects its potential for growth; it makes greater use of renewable energy, but its industrial energy costs are higher; it shows potential in material recycling, although there are areas for improvement; it lags behind the US in digitalisation, especially in small and medium-sized enterprises; it has a lower percentage of adults with advanced digital skills and IT specialists; and it has a greater share of global exports (although this has declined in recent decades)."
Centre for European Policy Studies
"The economic challenges are undoubtedly enormous. Mario Draghi’s recent report outlined them clearly. There’s doubt over Europe’s ability to create wealth. It doesn’t invest or innovate enough, it doesn’t spend enough on R&D and it lacks high-skilled labour. Europe also needs to prepare for a rapidly ageing population and invest much more in defence.
Europe’s productivity gap with the US is somewhere between 12 %-30 %, depending on the measure used. And as the Letta Report also laid out well, the EU is just not enough of a single market – it’s too fragmented in finance and digital services, and energy is far too expensive."
The Guardian
"EU leaders meeting in Budapest have signed a declaration aimed at boosting the bloc’s ailing competitiveness – a task given added urgency by the threat of “America first” protectionist trade policies promised by the US president-elect, Donald Trump.
Faced with growth levels lower than the US and China, inferior productivity and a shrinking share of world trade, the common aim was to “make Europe great again”, Orbán said, adding that competitiveness was not ideological – it’s just pragmatic."