Beating the Crisis - A Charter for Europe's Industrial Future
December 1993
The report recommends how Europe can turn round its fragmented high-cost, low-growth economy in order to improve its competitive standing with the rest of the world.
The focus is on Competitiveness, with a recommendation that Europe's governments should commit themselves to a Charter for Industry, should set up a European Competitiveness Council, and implement practical policies to put the charter into full effect.
Rebuilding Confidence - An Action Plan for Europe
December 1992
The ERT puts forward a four-point plan for action to give Europe a clear sense of direction to come out of the 1992 recession.
The Plan recommends concerted action:
1. Make the Single Market work to support the goal of industrial competitiveness;
2. Invest in people: education, training and fuller employment;
3. Invest in infrastructure and the environment;
4. Invest in technology.
Reshaping Europe
September 1991
The most ambitious of all ERT policy reports sought "to re-assess the major issues and map out the Agenda for Europe to the end of the century".
Covering subjects as diverse as education, employment, transport and energy infrastructure, sustainable development and R&D;, the report also gives the business view on industrial policy, monetary union, enlargement and comments on Europe's need for a common foreign policy and a strenghtened position in world trade.
Changing Scales
June 1985
ERT extended its vision to the educational sphere in "Changing Scales" (1985), arguing for improved science education at university level and for more resources for European centres of learning and their advanced projects such as Ariane/RACE. The document also gave ERT’s views on the causes of unemployment.
Memorandum to the EC Commissioner E. Davignon
April 1983
The first "output" of the European Round Table of Industrialists was a "Memorandum to the EC Commissioner E. Davignon" on the most important issues facing European industry. This paper, written at the request of Etienne Davignon and François-Xavier Ortoli (at the time both Members of the European Commission) served as industrialists’ contribution to the Stuttgart European Council. It called for an open and innovative Europe, not one that was closed and refusing to engage with the rest of the world. Valuable resources were being wasted because Europe was fragmented and industry needed help from governments to remove the many obstacles to innovation and competitiveness.
For ERT, the Memorandum served as a kind of "catalogue" of issues to be tackled subsequently in its Working Groups.
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