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DRAFT REPORT (2025/2013(INI))

On the Institutional aspects of the Report on the future of European Competitiveness (Draghi Report)

AFCO-PR-770278

Committee on Constitutional Affairs · Rapporteur: Brando Benifei

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This draft report addresses the institutional aspects of the Draghi Report on European competitiveness. It calls for treaty reforms, including extending qualified majority voting, and for new EU-level tools and policies to boost competitiveness. It proposes a European competitiveness tool, a permanent fiscal capacity, a European energy union, a European defence union, and a European AI model, among other initiatives.

Committee position. The rapporteur proposes a resolution that welcomes the Draghi report and calls for extensive institutional reforms, including treaty changes, to boost EU competitiveness.

Key points

  1. Welcomes the Draghi report and supports its analysis that Europe faces an existential challenge requiring a renewed agenda based on innovation, decarbonisation and defence.
  2. Stresses that key domains for reform include completing the single market, creating a savings and investments union, strengthening the EU budget, and developing energy and defence unions.
  3. Calls for a European competitiveness tool as a supranational governance instrument with binding authority, led by the Commission and overseen by Parliament.
  4. Reiterates calls to move to qualified majority voting and the ordinary legislative procedure in all policy fields, and to activate passerelle clauses.
  5. Urges the European Council to convene a convention for treaty revision under Article 48 TEU.
  6. Calls for Parliament to gain full legislative initiative and codecision over the EU budget.
  7. Considers Article 122 TFEU as a tool for crisis action but calls for treaty amendment to establish clear procedures and timelines.
  8. Supports adding a 'fifth freedom' for research, innovation, and education, and calls for completing the single market.
  9. Calls for a savings and investments union and a strengthened ESMA as a single common regulator.
  10. Calls for a social progress protocol and a Vice-President for the 'freedom to stay'.
  11. Calls for a permanent EU fiscal capacity, a European green sovereign fund, and a reformed EIB.
  12. Calls for a European defence union and a European AI model with a central authority for AI governance.

Who is affected

  • EU institutions: Parliament would gain more powers; Commission would lead new tools; Council would face more QMV.
  • Member states: would need to agree to treaty changes and possibly use enhanced cooperation or intergovernmental treaties.
  • European citizens: would benefit from a 'freedom to stay' and broader access to capital markets.
  • European companies: would get better financing opportunities and a more integrated single market.

Figures and deadlines

  • around 5 % of GDP: increase in investment levels needed to achieve growth bases.
  • 75-80 % of global wafer fabrication capacity is in Asia.
  • EUR 750-800 billion: additional annual investment required to restore EU productivity.

Legal basis: Article 48 of the Treaty on European Union and Article 122 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.