COMPETE Launch with Enrico Letta
On 16 February 2026, the Dublin European Law Institute (DELI) at DCU hosted a high-level event marking the launch of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence COMPETE. The programme featured keynote speeches by Enrico Letta, Former Prime Minister of Italy and Author of ‘Much More than a Market’, and Minister Thomas Byrne, Minister of State for European Affairs and Defence, a high-level policy roundtable and an academic panel of in-house experts. The event took place at the Helix, Dublin City University.
It examined how the EU’s regulatory, fiscal, and financial frameworks can drive competitiveness and economic transformation, particularly as Ireland prepares to host the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2026. In his keynote, Enrico Letta presented his matrix for completing the single market, under the term, 'One Europe, One Market'. A high-level policy roundtable followed with deliberations on how governments and businesses can translate these priorities into practice, followed by a panel of DCU experts presenting their research on European competitiveness, focusing on Regulation, Public Money, and Private Money.
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Welcome and Introduction by Professor Dáire Keogh, President of Dublin City University (DCU)
Presentation of COMPETE by Professor Federico Fabbrini, Full Professor of European Law and Founding Director of the Dublin European Law Institute and Brexit Institute, DCU
Keynote Speech by Enrico Letta, Former Prime Minister of Italy and Author of ‘Much More than a Market’
Keynote Speech by Minister Thomas Byrne, Minister of State for European Affairs and Defence
High-Level Policy Roundtable
- Mr Valerio Scollo, Partner, GSK Stockmann
- Mr Danny McCoy, Chief Executive Officer of Ibec
- Mr Massimo Fabio, Partner, Head of Trade & Customs, KPMG Italy
- Mr Andrew Byrne, Director, EU Policy Coherence, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Moderated by Professor John Doyle, Vice President for Research, DCU
Academic Panel
- Dr Christy Ann Petit, Assistant Professor of European Banking and Finance Law, DCU
- Dr Niall Moran, Assistant Professor of Economic Law, DCU
- Dr Ian Cooper, Senior Research Fellow at the Dublin European Law Institute and Brexit Institute, DCU
- Dr John Quinn, Assistant Professor of European Company Law
Moderated by Professor Derek Hand, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, DCU
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