“I wish we could transfer the feeling of urgency felt on industrial policy to the single market”, said Daniel Blockert, who chairs the High-Level Working Group on Competitiveness and Growth for the Swedish Presidency of the EU Council. On Thursday 22 June, he took part in a conference on the single market.
Work on the full application of European rules is necessary if the internal market is to function optimally, he believes. “We all know this, but it’s too slow”, he lamented.