Competitiveness on Build Sovereignhttps://buildsovereign.xyz/tags/competitiveness/Recent content in Competitiveness on Build SovereignHugoen-gbWed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000The Rhine Group: Draghi's Second Move for Europehttps://buildsovereign.xyz/articles/rhine-group-draghis-second-move-for-europe/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://buildsovereign.xyz/articles/rhine-group-draghis-second-move-for-europe/<p>On 24 August 2026 a quiet but telling announcement landed on a one-page website. Mario Draghi, the former European Central Bank president and ex-Italian prime minister, and Patrick Collison, the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, had co-founded a new forum called the Rhine Group. Within a week the press was calling it a &ldquo;lobby group for competitiveness.&rdquo; That label is partly right and partly wrong, and the gap matters.</p> <p>This article pulls together who is in the room, what they want, how they got there, and what the group can realistically deliver before the European political cycle absorbs it.</p>