The European Commission must go further than it has announced so far to reduce bureaucracy, according to the EPP. The group’s leaders met in Berlin on 17 and 18 January, where they adopted a declaration on the EU’s competitiveness and the need to reduce the bureaucratic burden for the continent’s businesses. In the three-page document, EPP members welcome the Commission’s plans, such as the ‘omnibus’ initiative to be presented at the end of February, but they call for the effort...