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Von der Leyen has made Draghi’s ideas the middle of her second time period as Commission president, incorporating their primary conclusions ― other than joint EU borrowing ― within the political program she requested the European Parliament to help over the summer season.
Presenting her new group earlier than the Parliament on Wednesday, von der Leyen introduced the primary initiative of the subsequent five-year time period shall be a “competitiveness compass” to shut the innovation hole with the United States, decarbonize the EU economic system and enhance its financial independence, with every commissioner instructed to contribute to those targets.
While her phrases had been a bit of imprecise, the concrete aspect of her announcement is the continued work to kind a gaggle of officers ― together with figures from the handful who helped Draghi write his research and saved it confidential ― to assist the Commission’s departments maintain the report’s implementation on observe.
The precise nature of the duty pressure continues to be being labored out, forward of the subsequent Commission kicking off on Dec. 1. The group is prone to be throughout the secretariat-general, which might put it on the coronary heart of the EU government, which means it might report on to von der Leyen.
