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“The main companies in analysis and investment-spending are the identical ones we had 20 years in the past ― vehicles,” he mentioned. “The United States was once the identical, autos and pharma, 20 years in the past. Now it is all digital.”
China is not simply catching up. In areas like the electrical car trade, it’s even leapfrogging Europe.
Magic wand
Draghi’s imaginative and prescient of how one can reply, one centered on clear vitality, high-tech and resilience, is formidable. The proposals span vitality market reform, looser merger guidelines and ― one for the Brussels nerds right here ― even modifications to the EU’s legislative session course of (identified within the jargon as “comitology”).
He needs to place some critical monetary firepower behind the mission: an additional €800 billion a yr in personal and public funding, which might be an unprecedented leap in spending for a continent nonetheless not sure about whether or not it ought to be making an attempt to splash the money or steadiness the books.
If a wand may very well be waved and all these options carried out there’s no query that it might put rocket boosters below the European economic system.
But his 77 years will need to have taught Draghi, like all present European politicians and all those that got here earlier than, that no such wand exists.
