This policy paper is presented as a contribution and policy proposal in support of the Letta Report on the Single Market, with the aim of articulating a pragmatic yet transformative vision: to establish GovTech as a fundamental layer of the Single Market and a core tool to operationalise the “fifth freedom” proposed in the Letta Report, allowing citizens and businesses to interact with public institutions in a simple, transparent and interoperable way.

Rather than being a subset of digital transformation, GovTech should be regarded as the technological infrastructure of European regulation: a tool to convert regulatory density into public value, through digital interfaces that reduce the burden on citizens and enterprises without compromising the integrity of the European legal framework.