If you measure progress by the length of the reports, then the European Union has come a long way. Mario Monti once wrote about the future of the internal market, first in 2010, in 47 pages, a year before the Milan economist briefly became Prime Minister of Italy. In 2016 he wrote another report like this with reform ideas, which was 107 pages long. Now Enrico Letta, another former head of government in Italy, has written down recommendations on behalf of the EU countries on how the EU can reinvent itself in terms of economic policy – on 147 pages. “Much more than a market,” is how he titled the work on the further development of the common economic area.
EU summit: Member states want reforms for the internal market – politics
