The letter signed by 100 European companies and investors rebuffs the anti-emissions trading push from governments and the chemicals lobby — showing that not all European firms are aligned on weakening carbon pricing.
After several years of industrial decline, the European Commission proposed a ‘Made in Europe’ policy. Is this a major industrial turning point?
After the college of commissioners failed to agree on many of the details of the Industrial Accelerator Act again on Monday, it will now be published in more limited form. Plans to bar non-EU producers from government contracts and funding have been delayed by six months.
Ministers responsible for competitiveness met for two days in Cyprus, but the talks produced little in the way of concrete decisions, and suggest an agreement on “Buy in Europe” rules is still some way off.