European leaders have spent the week talking about how to make the EU more competitive \u2014 first with industry heavyweights in Antwerp, then behind closed doors at a leaders\u2019 retreat in Belgium.<\/p>\n
On this episode of EU Confidential, host Sarah Wheaton digs into what\u2019s really behind the latest push to revive Europe\u2019s economy. Are calls for deregulation and lower energy costs a genuine course correction \u2014 or another round of diagnosis without delivery?<\/p>\n
POLITICO\u2019s Zia Weise, fresh from the industry summit in Antwerp, joins the discussion on how chemical giants and other industrial players are pressing for relief from climate and energy rules. Marianne Gros examines the backlash over Brussels\u2019 simplification drive and growing concerns about transparency and democratic safeguards. And Carlo Martuscelli breaks down the political fault lines exposed at the Alden Biesen retreat \u2014 and why so much of Mario Draghi\u2019s reform agenda remains stalled.<\/p>\n
Plus, Aitor Hern\u00e1ndez-Morales joins us with the latest on political developments in Portugal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European leaders have spent the week talking about how to make the EU more competitive \u2014 first with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[3389,211,210,8919,228,230,814,232,3268,233,8620,234,235,190,49,159,8920,7310,3047,3049,3590,1888],"class_list":["post-11410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-antonio-costa","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-chemicals","tag-competitiveness","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-energy","tag-eu-confidential","tag-european-green-deal","tag-european-politics","tag-far-right","tag-france","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany","tag-industry","tag-italy","tag-mario-draghi","tag-omnibus","tag-portugal","tag-spain","tag-transparency","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}