European Council 20 March 2025

Paragraph 20 addresses support for R&I:

20. The European Council stresses that, going forward, all the abovementioned competitiveness priorities and actions should work together, in a mutually reinforcing manner, along with relevant EU instruments, to support research and innovation, investment, convergence and cohesion, connectivity, trade diversification and economic partnerships, growth and economic resilience in the European Union. The European Council remains seized of all these matters, and will assess progress on competitiveness and the green and digital transitions at its meeting in October 2025.

Competitiveness is to be back on the agenda of the European Council in October.