{"id":24986,"date":"2025-09-16T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/24986\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:35:08","slug":"draghi-laments-pace-of-change-in-eu-as-it-lags-global-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/24986\/","title":{"rendered":"Draghi Laments Pace of Change in EU as It Lags Global Rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The European Union is moving too slowly in its efforts to boost economic competitiveness, with the region \u201cfailing to match the speed\u201d of a changing global order, former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A year after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-09-09\/draghi-says-eu-in-danger-without-massive-spending-and-joint-debt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">presenting a report<\/a> mapping out how the 27-member bloc can leverage its economic strength into greater competitiveness and prosperity, Draghi said Europeans are \u201cdisappointed\u201d by the pace of change in a fragmented region. Citizens see that the EU is failing to keep up with global rivals, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union is moving too slowly in its efforts to boost economic competitiveness, with the region \u201cfailing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,8839,114,1322,113,1813,14725,11450,61,60,102,8872,1650,2040,2286],"class_list":["post-24986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-capital-markets","tag-china","tag-debt","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-european-central-bank","tag-european-parliament","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-italy","tag-mario-draghi","tag-politics","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}