CER Podcast: Unpacking Europe: Evaluating Enrico Letta’s report on the single market

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🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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On April 18, former Italian prime minister Enrico Letta published his hotly-anticipated report, assessing the state of Europe's single market. Research fellow Aslak Berg and assistant director Zach Meyers sat down with podcast host Octavia Hughes to discuss the key takeaways from the report, as well as its shortcomings. They assess the reaction from European leaders and the Commission, and share their thoughts on what we can expect to see in Mario Draghi's report on competitiveness, due to be published in June. Their insight can be read here: https://www.cer.eu/insights/enrico-lettas-report-more-market-less-agenda Music by Edward Hipkins Produced by Octavia Hughes

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0:00.0	From the Center for European Reform, this is the CIA podcast.
0:04.0	Poson us seriously the question of the
0:05.9	future that we want, and we all
0:08.0	all together, the courage to it construct.
0:10.5	For us in Germany, is the
0:11.9	Bekenness to the European Europe,
0:14.0	a part of our state's resolve.
0:15.6	A strong united Europe is a necessity for the world,
0:17.9	because an integrated Europe remains vital to our
0:20.1	international order. This is the moment for Europe world because integrated Europe remains vital to our international order.
0:21.3	This is the moment for Europe to lead the way towards a new vitality.
0:27.8	Hello and welcome to the CER podcast. I'm Octavia Hughes, host of today's episode,
0:33.3	and I'm joined by CERR Research Fellow, Azlack Berg, and our assistant director, Zach Mayers, to discuss their insight on the letter report.
0:41.8	Welcome to the podcast.
0:43.1	Hi, Xavier. Nice to be here.
0:44.3	Thank you. I'm glad to be here.
0:45.6	To briefly summarize, the former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letter was tasked by European leaders to assess the state of the EU's single market. And last week on
0:55.9	April 18th, his report was published. So I'd like to start by asking what the main takeaways
1:01.4	of Dr. Lettter's report are. What does he see as the pressing concerns facing the single market?
1:07.2	Well, when you read through the report, what's striking is actually how wide range it is.
1:12.1	It covers so many topics.
1:13.8	It's a little difficult to extract a couple of main takeaways.
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