Draghi or why we need to think outside the national box
It has been a few days since Mario Draghi published his report on competitiveness in Europe. Reactions varied from raised eyebrows to the German liberals hyperventilating as the report suggested that Europe's innovation gap, decarbonisation and secure supply chains required increasing the contributions to the European Union to 4-5% of GDP up from its current level of a meager 1.5%. The report went even further and asked for fundamental reforms to the architecture of the European Union including