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One year after Mario Draghi’s landmark report, HCSS launches Draghi Revisited, the second edition of its Draghi Report Series. Despite rising political attention, Europe remains dependent in key defence, raw materials, cleantech and digital sectors, while global pressures intensify. Following the impact of their initial series, HCSS analysts Ron Stoop and Berend Kwak were invited to the European Commission’s conference marking the report's anniversary, and now return to assess how far Europe has advanced toward industrial, technological and economic sovereignty. This new edition revisits Draghi’s warnings sector by sector, reviewing the EU’s concrete steps over the past year.

In the concluding instalment of the Draghi Report Revisited series, series editors Ron Stoop and Berend Kwak assess how far the EU has come, one year after Mario Draghi’s call for a stronger and more competitive Europe. Drawing on the sectoral deep dives by HCSS analysts, they outline where real progress has been made — and where Europe continues to fall short in achieving industrial, technological and economic sovereignty. Their verdict: while policy ambition is rising, implementation remains slow, fragmented and underfunded — leaving Europe at risk of staying a regulatory power rather than becoming an industrial one.