Enrico Letta: Harnessing Europe's Single Market

About this episode

Enrico Letta discusses the challenges and opportunities of adapting Europe's single market in the context of current geopolitical issues.

There is strength in numbers, and the idea of European integration through a single market was to capitalize on the EU as a whole. However, the single market is a product of the early 90s, and EU member states now appear reticent to pool sovereignty to the degree required to counter the geopolitical challenges of today's world. Enrico Letta is President of the Jacques Delors Institute and a champion of Delors' vision of creating a fully integrated European economic space. Letta's 2024 report, Much More than a Market, argues that adaptation of the single market should include all sectors rather than a select few and that fragmentation is holding Europe back. Transcript : https://traffic.libsyn.com/imfpodcast/Enrico_Letta-transcript-IMF_Podcast.pdf

People in this episode

Guest: Enrico Letta

Topics covered

• European integration
• single market
• geopolitical challenges
• economic space
• fragmentation

Keywords

• European integration
• single market
• geopolitical challenges
• Enrico Letta
• Jacques Delors Institute

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jacques Delors Institute

Books & works: Much More than a Market

Places: European Union

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