At their next meeting on 23 October, the EU’s heads of state or government will once again address the issue of European competitiveness. In doing so, they will stress the urgent need to press ahead with simplification work, according to draft conclusions dated 13 October obtained by Agence Europe. While the leaders welcome the initiatives taken by the Commission - the simplification ‘omnibus’ - and the recent adoption of several of these texts, they say that the work could be done...