10 Sep 2025
All committees
In her annual State of the Union address to the European Parliament, Commission President von der Leyen warned that, at a time of geopolitical rivalry, a new Europe must emerge.
Commenting on her remarks, Malte Lohan, CEO, the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU (AmCham EU), echoed the Commission President’s pitch for European unity and emphasised the critical role of the competitiveness agenda: ‘President von der Leyen captured the urgency of the moment: “Europe is in a fight”. But the EU will get nowhere in that fight without a competitive economy that generates investment, innovation and growth. The Commission has set the course; it is now for the Parliament and Member States to follow through and make competitiveness Europe’s defining strength’.