The European Union must no longer be a continent where business has it tough. This is an observation shared by all stakeholders, and the Commission wants to take things in hand to achieve this. On Wednesday 29 January, it presented its ‘Competitiveness Compass’, outlining the actions it plans to take from this year onwards. These include a series of ‘omnibus’ packages aimed at simplifying existing legislation, rather than a single ‘omnibus’ initiative, as the Commission had...