European leaders risk increasing inequalities by turbo-charging failed “competitiveness” models

Leaders across Europe are pre-occupied with finding a new model to help them compete on the global economic stage with the U.S. and China, amid sharpening geo-political rivalries and fears of growing dependencies on dominant U.S. or Chinese firms. But is the EU going to fall prey to the failed ideological assumptions bound up in the ‘competitiveness agenda’? A new report by civil society groups comments.