The EESC has adopted an own-initiative opinion providing recommendations on how to strengthen enforcement policy as a central tool to reduce fragmentation within the Single Market. The opinion builds on some of the key recommendations of the Letta and Draghi reports and provides elements to ensure the rapid implementation of the Single Market Strategy, in which the Commission admits a need to step up enforcement efforts. 

The European steel and metal industries face an unprecedented, existential crisis that threatens not only industrial capacity, but also Europe's strategic autonomy, green transition, and economic security. 

In a general context of skills shortages, new digital and green skills include technological innovations stemming from corporate research and development activities and from university and institutional research. Combining in-company training with training provided by training providers is a particularly effective way of ensuring that these new skills are acquired.