The new Commission must be a Commission for competitiveness, because: The engine for Europe's economic growth and prosperity is a functioning single market. The economic success of the EU depends on this and on lively domestic competition. However, for it to also lead to greater competitiveness compared to other regions of the world and thus develop its full potential, harmonisation towards consistent and coherent regulation and thus the abolition of national exemptions is crucial. However, this must be done with great caution and within the bounds of what is feasible. At present, the EU's efforts at harmonisation are increasingly having the opposite effect: the many regulations and often also their implementation are overburdening companies - regardless of whether they are large corporations or SMEs - as well as member states and can hardly be implemented by them within the specified time frames. As a result, economic activities in the EU are at a disadvantage in international competition - this almost always hits European companies the hardest, which the single market is supposed to strengthen. For this reason, the "New Approach" established by the EU Commission many years ago, which is intended to promote the technical harmonisation of national legal regulations for product groups in the EU internal market, must once again be given greater priority: more framework regulations and fewer detailed regulations are needed.