Source: European Parliament
The priorities of the new Commission are described in the Political Guidelines[1] and the Mission Letters. On 29 January 2025, the Commission presented the Competitiveness Compass[2], which is informed by the report by Mario Draghi and lays out the roadmap for the next years to increase Europe’s competitiveness.
The Competitiveness Compass identifies flagship actions and initiatives such as the Clean Industrial Deal that will further implement the priorities set out in the Compass.
The Commission has further published a communication on a European Savings and Investments Union[3], as recommended in the report by Enrico Letta.
In the first 100 days of the mandate, the Commission presented a Vision for Agriculture and Food[4] by drawing on the recommendations of the Strategic Dialogue on the Future of Agriculture and Food[5]. Moreover, the Commission bases all its policy initiatives on solid evidence to which these reports contribute.
Any policy initiatives will take account of the findings in the Draghi and other reports and will be based on instruments — legislative or otherwise — that allow meeting the pursued policy objectives in the most effective way.
Speed, coherence and simplification will be priorities of the Commission. The Commission will screen the EU acquis to identify measures to simplify EU laws, without undermining the policy objectives, thus stress-testing the stock of EU laws.
Improved competitiveness and small and medium-sized enterprises checks will be implemented in the working methods, in all impact assessments.
The Commission will engage with stakeholders through a new consultation approach called reality checks, and each Commissioner will hold at least two implementation dialogues per year.
- [1] https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/e6cd4328-673c-4e7a-8683-f63ffb2cf648_en?filename=Political%20Guidelines%202024-2029_EN.pdf
- [2] A Competitiveness Compass for the EU, COM(2025) 30 final.
- [3] Savings and Investments Union — A Strategy to Foster Citizens’ Wealth and Economic Competitiveness of the EU, COM(2025) 124 final.
- [4] https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/vision-agriculture-food_en#:~:text=The%20Vision%20calls%20for%20devising,healthy%2C%20quality%20food%20to%20citizens
- [5] https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/common-agricultural-policy/cap-overview/main-initiatives-strategic-dialogue-future-eu-agriculture_en