This opinion will look into the important role that organised civil society can play to implement the Single Market Strategy and in the overall integration of the EU Single Market.
The European Commission’s Annual Competition Report 2025 summarises the key policy and enforcement developments in EU competition policy in 2025, covering State aid, antitrust, mergers, the Foreign Subsidies Regulation and the Digital Markets Act.
The objective of this own-initiative opinion is to examine how the European Union can better leverage its Free Trade Agreements as effective instruments of economic security, competitiveness and resilience.
This opinion examines the Commission’s plans to make EU rules simpler, clearer and better enforced, focusing on design, digital tools, clean‑up of existing laws and stronger implementation, enforcement and single‑market fairness overall.
In this own-initiative opinion, the EESC argues that deeper integration of the Single Market is essential to boost productivity, particularly in the services sector, which remains less integrated despite its growing economic importance.
The European Green Deal sets a high ambition for a toxic-free environment leading to zero pollution. The Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS) adopted on 14 October 2020 outlines the Commission’s strategy for the sustainable and safe use of chemicals.
