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Leaders for European
Growth and Competitiveness
First Edition

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Contents


Foreword                                                        3

Executive summary                                                 4

Introduction                                                      6

Clean and Competitive Energy and Industry                           8

1 Overview                                                      9

2  Context: How crisis serves as a catalyst                              10

3 Challenges                                                    11

4  Solutions                                                     18

5 Summary                                                     32

Shaping the Intelligent Age: How Europe Can Thrive                    33

1 Overview                                                     34

2 Context                                                      35

3  Building the conditions for competitiveness                           38

4 Leading by example: the power to drive change                       51

5 Summary                                                     55

Leveraging Financial Markets                                      56

1 Overview                                                     57

2  Context: Finance as a key enabler for European growth and competitiveness   59

3  Financing Europe’s investment challenge                             63

4 The savings and investments union                                 71

5 Enhancing funding supply through capital mobilization                   75

6 Summary                                                     89

Enabling Strategic Alliances                                       90

1 Overview                                                     91

2 Context                                                      92

3  Europe’s trade strategy                                          94

4  Europe’s outbound investment and development strategy                99

5  Sectoral analysis: critical raw materials                              103

6 Summary                                                    107

Conclusion                                                     108

Contributors                                                    109

Endnotes                                                      112




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