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Patrick Collison posted a summary of the results on Twitter in case you don't want to read the whole report: https://x.com/patrickc/status/1833127988512305352

TL;DR: "Mario Draghi's new report on EU competitiveness doesn't mince words."

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It's also an American that cherry-picks a tiny part of a significantly more balanced report to drive their own viewpoint. As usual.

Read the actual doc.

Is it actually balanced? With huge documents like these, the tendency is to add in artificial balance to placate various government factions, interest groups, etc. Often the document still has a preferred view that you can distill once you brush aside the filler.

Edit: just read the foreword (what would be called the “executive summary” in an American document). Seems like the Twitter thread describes that pretty well. And since the document authors know that the foreword is what most of the readers will read, that’s pretty indicative of their views.

Patrick Collison is from Ireland.

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