The ‘Draghi Plan’ is not good for Europe, does not enhance its strengths, and promotes the kind of growth that neglects social and environmental justice. This assessment emerges from our extensive critical analysis of the ‘Draghi Plan’ strategy. As shown by the Mission Letters to the Commissioners-designate, the Plan has already deeply penetrated in the European agenda. ForumDD proposes instead to use it, before it is implemented, to promote a public, informed and open debate on the future of the Union. The document is the collaborative result of a group of experts from the ForumDD and reflects the ideas and proposals of the volume, ‘Which Europe’, now available in English edited by Elena Granaglia and Gloria Riva, published by Donzelli Editore
We have taken seriously the report The Future of European Competitiveness, known as the “Draghi Plan” and we have published today our analysis that contains a critical assessment of the Plan: it is not good for Europe, it does not enhance its strengths, it promotes the kind of growth that neglects social justice.
In short, the Plan’s strategy is led astray both by the choice of the USA as the recurring standard of reference, without grasping its weaknesses, economic instability and recent developments, and by the parallel disregard for Europe’s specificities and strengths and its actual geopolitical opportunities. The Plan is also biased by not taking people’s point of view of the people and by an ancillary view of the social dimension, which accentuates the divide between the economy and society as if we had learnt nothing over the last decades. These weaknesses condition the remedies, which configure a strategy that would harm Europe.
We believe there is an urgent need to use the Plan, which has already penetrated deeply into the European agenda as reflected in the Mission Letters to the designated members of the EU Commission, to open a public, informed and open debate on the future of the Union.
The Forum on Inequality and Diversity offers an alternative vision with its book “Which Europe” edited by Elena Granaglia and Gloria Riva (Donzelli, 2024) addressing thirteen themes and presenting several specific proposal to address the challenges for the EU and a clear-cut vision of what Europe is about.
“The Union advocated in this book is a place where universal welfare is promoted rather than penalized by austerity; where knowledge and data are accessible and available to communities; where ecological transformation is accelerated in the interest first and foremost of the most vulnerable people to achieve a fairer way of life and work; and where public policies and governance are democratized. A Europe that becomes aware of its fundamental role in migration processes and acts as a builder of cooperation and peace”.
This is the incipit of the e-book that is now available in English here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKMKHLJK.
Here the main points: https://bit.ly/40bdtuG
Here the full document: https://bit.ly/DraghiPlan_ForumDDAnalysis_ENG
