Draghi it's always SuperMario. It was enough for him to illustrate the guidelines of his Report on the competitiveness of Ue, which will be presented after the European elections, to achieve two objectives: to give a boost to a Europe that has been closed in on itself for too long by asking for "a radical change” and effectively strengthen the hypothesis of one candidacy for leadership of the EU either as President of the Commission or, more likely, as President of the European Council. Naturally, much will depend on the result of the European elections and much on Draghi's will, which is never a given.
As always, Draghi went on the attack, lashing out at Europe and urging it not to compete at home, between one state and another, but to compete externally with other continents. “The fundamental issue – he said – is not that competitiveness is a wrong concept but the fact is that Europe has had the wrong focus” because “we have turned inwards, seeing our competitors among us, even in sectors such as defense and'power in which we have deep common interests and, at the same time, we have not looked outward enough" and to "our competitiveness abroad as a serious political issue" "But now the world is changing and has taken us by surprise" and to us “one is missing general strategy” especially to keep pace in the leadership of new technologies but also in the protection of our traditional industries. In other words, Europe lives "in the world of yesterday, pre-Covid, pre-Ukraine and pre-conflagration in the Middle East" while "we need an EU suited to the world of today and tomorrow".
To change Europe we need clear priorities and profound reforms: the Draghi Report will indicate them but the stone has now been thrown into the pond.
