Former Italian prime minister Enrico Letta is pushing for the creation a fifth freedom within the EU's single market, to optimise Europe's advantages in research, innovation and education.
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00:00The single market, it is very, I would say, 20th century economy based.
00:11It is what you touch, what is tangible.
00:15In reality, even Jacques Delors, at the end of his mandate, said it would be necessary to discuss about the fifth freedom.
00:25So I took this idea of Jacques Delors and I developed it.
00:32I give you a very concrete example.
00:35We launched some years ago the idea of the European universities, consortium of universities, 8, 9, 10 universities.
00:45We have to scale in terms of financing this consortium
00:50and we have to create a system in which university professors, scholars, students, researchers are not going always in the same direction.
01:03From east to west and from south to north.
01:07We have to create a circularity.
01:10We have to create incentives to help scholars and students to go from Paris and Berlin to the peripheric regions of Europe
01:20and to move in the possibility to make possible that research in Europe grow up everywhere but in a connection with this network of European universities.
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