The CEOE’s European Union Committee discusses with the European Commission the EU’s current priorities and challenges
The CEOE’s European Union Committee was attended by the Secretary General of the CEOE, José Alberto González Ruiz, and by Daniel Calleja, the Director General of the European Commission’s Legal Service, with whom they discussed the challenges and opportunities for Spanish businesses in the current context, bearing in mind the current priorities and emerging challenges in the EU.
Besides evoking European management of the pandemic internally and globally, Daniel Calleja explored the priorities that will be pursued at the European Council on 24 and 25 March in the areas of defence, energy and the economy. In particular, it highlighted the importance of strengthening the EU’s strategic autonomy, by enhancing, among other aspects, policies to support key industrial ecosystems.
It also reviewed the current risks to the EU’s projected economic recovery by 2022, which are exacerbated by the progress of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Notable among them are inflationary tensions, rising energy prices and disruptions to supply chains.
Finally, it recalled that the European Union rises to crises, and concluded that it is time to strengthen, on the basis of unity, policies which, besides contributing to reducing Europe’s external dependencies, consolidate the agreed pathways towards decarbonisation and digitalisation by the agreed deadlines.
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