History is a circle and the 90s are back: Look no further than the gatherings of Europe’s industrialists.
If you follow the EU’s, say, transport policy, there is one term you will hear over and over again: Technology neutrality.
The ruling from the German constitutional court in Karlsruhe, declaring the transfer of 60 billion Euros in Covid-related debt to the Klima- und Transformationsfond (KTF) unlawful, has cast a shadow of uncertainty over Germany's economic security agenda, argues Tobias Gehrke.
To sustain its prosperity and stability, the EU needs to reduce the regulatory burden for companies, finalise more trade agreements and turn the Green Deal into a growth strategy in the coming legislative term, argues Markus J. Beyrer.
As Europe's competitiveness lags behind other world regions, the EU should focus on increasing public and private investment in technology and skills as well as push forward on the green energy transition to ensure reliable clean energy supply, argue Mirek …
As the European elections draw near, Paris and Berlin should move towards a common European approach to industrial policy – with three key elements: vision, funding, and governance, argue Sabine Nallinger and Thomas Pellerin-Carlin.
The EU is at risk of lagging behind with strategic climate technologies, unless the right incentives and investments are put in place to unlock the potential of European startup companies, writes Craig Douglas.
The US Inflation Reduction Act's first 90 days were enough for the US to overtake the EU’s second-place spot in producing cleantech; meanwhile, European investments in renewables halved in 2023. But Brussels still has the potential to ramp up domestic production by building on the successes of the European Green Deal.
The EU Chips Act, a new-generation industrial policy tool for the European Union, is producing appreciable results, but not those expected by its early advocates, writes Mathieu Duchâtel.
The EU must develop an industrial strategy tailored to address the challenges faced by energy-intensive industries, write Giovanni Sgaravatti, Simone Tagliapietra, and Georg Zachmann.
Instead of talking of a subsidy race, EU leaders should focus on how to make the Green Deal Industrial Plan as effective as possible to ensure win-wins, write Jakob Hafele and Jonathan Barth.
Europe’s green subsidy splurge risks increasing market concentration through capture by large corporations. The EU must seek to ensure that its relaxed state aid framework benefit a wide set of companies, not just big business, argues Max von Thun. Max von …
The European Tech Champions Initiative launched on Monday (13 February) will not only help to fund the scale-up of European technology companies, it should also help develop the European venture capital market, argue Gelsomina Vigliotti and Marjut Falkstedt.
The US Inflation Reduction Act takes some steps to push corporations to act more socially responsible, particularly around wages and apprenticeships, but Europe should go far beyond this, building on a stronger welfare state and tradition of solidarity, writes Sebastian Mang.
The European Union's initial response to the US subsidy programme is no substitute for a strategy to improve competitiveness, writes Stefano Mallia. Stefano Mallia is the president of the Employers' Group in the European Economic and Social Committee. Last week, the European …
With both the US and China embracing a high-subsidy model for strategic industries, the EU must similarly adopt a radical shift in policy when it comes to trade, writes Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou.
As a response to the US Inflation Reduction Act, German economy minister Robert Habeck is calling for Europe's own 'local content rule', but in a 'WTO-compatible' manner. He argued that this was for climate protection reasons, but however green he may be, this is just plain and simple industrial policy.
The European Commission should ban sales commissions that financial advisers receive when they sell financial products as this distorts incentives and leaves retail investors worse off, argues Monique Goyens.
Hungary is one of the countries most dependent on Russian gas and most hit by its skyrocketing prices. The real solution is to invest in solar, and the current U-turn on coal phase-out places structural EU funds at risk, writes Alexa Botár.
As the EU's fiscal rules are being reformed, investment in green, digital and social public goods should be excluded from the debt calculations, argues André Sobczak.
The reform of the EU's fiscal rules should consider the need for investments and spending to achieve a just green transition that is currently being hampered by the austere fiscal rules, argues Isabelle Brachet.
The EU should temper its vigorous pursuit of sovereignty through regulatory power. It should instead lead to an alternative model of international digital cooperation based on setting common technological standards with other democratic nations.
Regulators should be mindful of the limitations of the European Central Bank's (ECB) climate stress test, and beware of a too-big-to-fail scenario once climate risks start materialising, argues Julia Symon.
Technologies to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the iron and steel industries already exists and are scalable. Policies and measures in the EU must therefore incentivise development in this direction and do so quickly, writes Henrik Henriksson.
