{"id":430956,"date":"2025-06-27T08:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T06:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/06\/27\/commercio-regole-leader-ue-competitivita\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T13:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:04:53","slug":"more-trade-less-regulation-eu-leaders-confirm-path-toward-competitiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/06\/27\/more-trade-less-regulation-eu-leaders-confirm-path-toward-competitiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"More trade, less regulation: EU leaders confirm path toward competitiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Proceed like\u00a0before<\/strong>, in the direction\u00a0developed and even more yet to be\u00a0created because the path to European competitiveness will continue to rest on at least two strands of work: simplification and multilateralism,<\/strong> which, translated, means fewer rules and more foreign trade, for an industry-proof EU<\/strong>.\u00a0 From this perspective, the summit of EU heads of state and government yields little. However, ultimately, it provides clear mandates to those in charge, starting with the European Commission, which has significant contributions to make in trade and industrial relations with other players.\u00a0The summit’s conclusions<\/a>\u00a0emphasize\u00a0the need for strategic autonomy, reduction of dependencies, especially energy, and securing supplies and supply chains. This translates into trade, and the leaders’ decisions look ahead to the coming months. As the President of the European Council, Antonio Costa,\u00a0<\/strong>explained at the final press conference, the upcoming<\/strong> summits<\/strong> with Moldova (4 July), Japan, China (24-25 July), Latin American countries and the Caribbean (EU-CELAC 9-10 November<\/a>), and African Union countries in the second half of this year,\u00a0“will provide us with further opportunities to promote fair and reliable trade, economic security,<\/strong> and to shape a clean transition,”\u00a0thereby boosting the competitiveness the EU is looking for.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, the leaders give and reiterate the mandate to the Commission to work across the board for an ever-closer and broader\u00a0network of relationships valuable\u00a0for the twelve-star revival. However, they call on the Commission to\u00a0renew its focus and show fresh momentum\u00a0on the energy issue. “In the light of the global instability and pressure on energy markets<\/a>, and\u00a0their impact on Europe’s competitiveness,” the Twenty-Seven\u00a0“reiterate the importance of building a genuine Energy Union before 2030 with a fully integrated and interconnected EU energy market.”\u00a0It is a\u00a0reform effort internal to\u00a0the Union, which also involves improving the Single Market and\u00a0establishing the Savings Union, which is currently\u00a0underway<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In short, “the road ahead is clear,<\/span><\/span><\/span>” <\/strong>the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen <\/strong>said,\u00a0<\/strong>convinced that precisely for this reason, in the end, “we had a productive European Council summit at a decisive moment” for the EU and its member states.<\/span><\/span> Now, all that remains is to work for European competitiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The heads of state and government confirm the mandate to work with third countries in the name of competitiveness. Costa: ‘The summits of the coming months will be crucial’. Energy concerns, call for real union by 2030<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":430952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[25866,27338,27987,27742],"class_list":["post-430956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-energy-en","tag-vertice-dei-leader-en-2","tag-trade-en-2","tag-ursula-von-del-leyen-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430956"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431003,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430956\/revisions\/431003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}