The draft declaration for the informal meeting of European leaders to be held in Budapest on Friday 8 November, obtained by Agence Europe, sets out the main elements of a “New European Competitiveness Deal”, which will build on the foundations laid by the Versailles Declaration of March 2022 (see EUROPE B12909A1) and the Granada Declaration of October 2023 (see EUROPE B13266A1), and will specifically reaffirm the desire to complete the green and digital transitions in the European...