How Can the EU Boost Competitiveness with Smarter Legal Frameworks?

The EU has significantly shaped framework conditions in areas such as data protection, consumer health and safety, environmental protection, the supply chain, and antitrust law. However, the EU’s overregulation in some areas is seen not as beneficial, but as a detrimental factor limiting innovation, competition and growth. The EU now needs better, evidence-based regulation ensuring that its legislation is drafted in a transparent and inclusive manner and is as simple and targeted as possible to reduce unnecessary bureaucracy burdens and costs. In the Policy Debate of the new EconPol Forum our authors discuss the question of how to boost competitiveness with smarter legal frameworks.