Then there’s Draghi himself. While Garicano and others have expressed more frankly that European countries must also loosen labor market restrictions and scale back welfare programs (the very thing that closing the gap is supposed to preserve), Draghi’s tone in the report is more muted. Yet in the 1990s, when he was intimately involved in sweeping neoliberal reforms as the director general of the Italian Treasury, he personally oversaw mass privatization efforts and enforced the budgetary constraints that led to severe cuts in social spending. That Italy became the prime example of dysfunctional stagnation in the advanced world, including posting the worst average per capita growth rate in the world during the 2000s, is in no small part due to the vincolo esterno generation of policy economists that included Draghi

The revision was announced in President von der Leyen's Political Guidelines.   It responds to long-standing shortcomings identified by the European Court of Auditors, including declining competition, limited SME and cross-border participation, and the rise of single-bid procedures. It also follows calls from the Council of the EU and the European Parliament for a strategic, simplified, and competitive framework.     It also responds to the recommendations of the Draghi and Letta reports, which highlight public procurement as a strategic tool to strengthen Europe's industrial base, support innovation, advance the green and digital transitions, and reinforce economic security.

Neither Cursor nor xAI has proprietary models that can match the leading offerings from Anthropic and OpenAI — the same companies now competing directly with Cursor for the developer market.

Pfeffer, J. (1992).Managing with power: Politics and influence in organizations. Boston: HarvardBusiness School Press