In my speech today, I outlined the need to strike a balance between harmonisation, subsidiarity and proportionality; I highlighted the challenge posed by decisionmaking processes; and I discussed the challenge of addressing the harmonisation of options and national discretionary scope within the regulatory framework. A lot of work still lies ahead of us.
But as Jean Monnet, one of the founding-fathers of the European Union, once said: “to make all men work together, you have to show them that, beyond their divergences or over and above frontiers, they have a common interest”.