In its work programme for the current six-month period, the Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council intends to focus on the single market and industrial policy, with an emphasis on SMEs in order to consolidate the EU's strategic autonomy in the face of often unfair and increasingly aggressive international competition.
By recalling the shortcomings of the single market that were revealed by the pandemic (see EUROPE B12452A14), it therefore wants to launch a reflection on the functioning of...