European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with Mario Draghi in Brussels to discuss the EU’s competitiveness agenda and the implementation of Draghi’s 2024 report at Draghi’s request. Whenever these two gather behind closed doors to discuss “competitiveness,” the European taxpayer should grab his wallet because Brussels has never encountered a problem it did not believe could be solved with more centralized power, more borrowing, and more government spending. The Commission claims that it is making “excellent progress” on trade diversification, regulatory simplification, and a new roadmap called “One ... (full story)