Mario Draghi was the man hailed as saving the eurozone during the sovereign debt crisis when president of the European Central Bank. This time his challenge may be greater still: Stop Europe falling behind the rest of the world.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen asked Draghi to write a landmark report on the future of EU competitiveness around a year ago. Its topics vary far and wide, and many of them will prove controversial.

After many months of drafting behind closed doors, it will finally be made public on Monday.

In part it's a response to the EU facing structural problems in sectors as diverse as defense and energy. But it has also to solve issues ignored for a long time such as a lack of investment in innovation ― with U.S. firms investing around €700 billion more each year ― and difficulties posed in tapping Europe's potential. Much of this, some say, is because the bloc is still fragmented along nation-state lines.

With rivals such as the U.S. and China progressively distancing themselves from the old world of free trade, the EU is generally struggling to find its own way to compete on the global stage.

The report will come in at around 400 pages, including recommendations for 10 main economic sectors. Here, POLITICO looks at five major talking points. 

1. Money, money, money

Draghi has made it clear from the very beginning that the EU needs to invest an "enormous amount of money in a relatively short time” to finance economic decarbonization, digital innovation, and all the infrastructure that can be considered a European common good.

He stressed several times that private capital should play the biggest role. But in the runup to the report's publication, he has avoided being specific on where public financing might come into it.

EU countries are and have always been deeply divided on the matter, while the Commission is considering a big reshuffle of the EU budget. That is likely simply to make disagreement even more acute...

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