Ahead of a Thursday EU leaders\u2019 retreat on competitiveness, von der Leyen said member states need to get their own houses in order.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must also look at the national level, there is too much gold-plating \u2014 the extra layers of national legislation that just make businesses\u2019 lives harder and create new barriers in our single market,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ahead of the leaders\u2019 summit, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz published a paper blaming Brussels\u2019 regulation for Europe\u2019s economic malaise.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But von der Leyen argued that countries are also to blame: \u201cIf we are serious about simplification, we must crack down on gold-plating and fragmentation. It is time for a deep regulatory housecleaning, at all levels.\u201d<\/p>\n
She gave the example of discrepant weight limits for trucks in France and Belgium \u2014 two neighboring countries \u2014 which makes transport more complicated. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe proposed legislation to harmonise this. Almost two years later, it is still under discussion,\u201d she said, while also pointing out that many simplification bills in Brussels are still stuck in negotiations between EU countries and the European Parliament.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of a Thursday EU leaders\u2019 retreat on competitiveness, von der Leyen said member states need to get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,18,79,80,115,171,173,351,491,85,1218,787,1219,178,279,258,1220,300,1221],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-companies","tag-competitiveness","tag-france","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-media","tag-negotiations","tag-regulation","tag-regulatory","tag-research","tag-research-and-development","tag-single-market","tag-social-media","tag-tariffs","tag-transport","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-waste"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}