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The Europe Debate

Sep 28, 2026

The Draghi report's implementation rate is slowing down

EPIC's Implementation Index shows Brussels adding new Draghi Report measures at barely a third of the pace it managed six months earlier -- a data point due its own reckoning when the report's one-year review lands in September.

Business & Economy

Sep 28, 2026

Seventeen EU Governments Declare War on Their Own Gold-Plating

An Austrian-Italian coalition of 17 EU states launched a pact this week against 'gold-plating' — the extra rules governments bolt onto EU law — pointing at a fragmentation source that EPIC's own Single Market accounting has never separately measured.

The Europe Debate

Sep 28, 2026

Ukraine's EU Bid Is Moving Fast. Its Readiness Score Says Otherwise.

Kyiv wants four more EU negotiating clusters open by January, and Brussels is racing to front-load next year's loan payouts as Ukraine's wartime budget runs dry. EPIC's own Integration Readiness Index says the diplomatic pace has outrun the reform record it can actually measure.