{"id":310462,"date":"2026-11-04T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T08:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=310462"},"modified":"2026-11-04T13:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T09:02:58","slug":"politico-brussels-to-prioritise-competitiveness-and-cutting-red-tape-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/310462\/","title":{"rendered":"POLITICO: Brussels to prioritise competitiveness and cutting red tape in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The European Commission is scaling back its legislative ambitions for 2027, prioritizing competitiveness, deregulation and economic security as the clock starts to run down on Ursula von der Leyen&rsquo;s second term.<\/p>\n<p>According to a copy of its annual Work Programme and related annexes obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/brussels-sets-slimline-legislative-agenda-for-2027\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POLITICO<\/a>, the EU wants to strengthen the single market, cut red tape, modernize industry and bolster its defense capabilities at a time of mounting geopolitical risks and economic uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The EU must retain the ability to forge its own path,&rdquo; the document reads, adding that &ldquo;independence is our priority for Europe&rsquo;s economy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But with existing initiatives &mdash; such as the Industrial Accelerator Act &mdash; facing delays, Brussels is focusing on getting legislation that is already in preparation across the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s also killing off proposals that have no chance of passing, along with a crop of outdated regulations.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission is scaling back its legislative ambitions for 2027, prioritizing competitiveness, deregulation and economic security as the clock starts to run down on Ursula von der Leyen&rsquo;s second term. According to a copy of its annual Work Programme and related annexes obtained by POLITICO, the EU wants to strengthen the single market, cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":310466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310463,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310462\/revisions\/310463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}