The 2024 reports by Mario Draghi and Enrico Letta have made quite a splash in the EU and its Member States, becoming roadmaps pointing to the course Europe should take to secure a viable future. In its opinion, Assessment of the Letta and Draghi reports on the functioning and the competitiveness of the EU's single market, the EESC provides a civil society perspective on the reports and puts forward recommendations for urgent action. We asked the opinion's three rapporteurs—Matteo Carlo Borsani, Giuseppe Guerini, and Stefano Palmieri—to highlight the proposals from the reports that they consider particularly important for the EU's future prosperity.