Europaudvalget 2021-22
EUU Alm.del Bilag 310
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Background note
Session 1
Strategic autonomy in the industries of the future.
With a keynote speech of Mr Thierry Breton, European Commissioner
for the Internal Market
Interparliamentary Conference on the strategic economic
autonomy of the European Union
Paris, 14 March 2022
 EUU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 310: Invitation til interparlamentarisk konference om EU's økonomiske suverænitet 13-14/3-22
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Session 1
Strategic autonomy in the industries of the
future
The public health crisis has provided further proof, if any were
needed, that industry is the foundation of our nations’ economies and
resilience.
The sectors essential to our future are not only those that will be capable, in
the years to come, of developing breakthrough technologies to allow for
instance the widespread storage and use of hydrogen for transport, the mass
production of batteries for electric cars or the storage of the carbon generated
by metallurgical industry processes.
Europe’s industrial strategic autonomy will also involve
all the sectors that
guarantee the smooth day-to-day running of our societies and economies,
even at times when the globalised economy is seeing a cyclical downturn. By
this we mean the health industries, of course, which produce essential active
ingredients for medicines, but also the manufacturing of electronic components
indispensable to the automotive or machinery industries, the importance of
which has been so well illustrated by the current chip shortage.
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How can this effort to construct Europe’s strategic autonomy be
implemented in the industrial sector?
Provide large-scale support for the emergence of new industrial activities by
means of cross investment by national governments and Europe? Reinforce
resilience in value chains by diversified partnerships? Improve the
attractiveness of European production sites through tax policy and adapted
regulations? No doubt all of these at the same time. With what tools, what
actors, at what level?
These are the questions essential to the implementation of a true European
industrial policy.
Among the instruments that will enable the development of European
companies and industries, the question of
the reinforcement of the legal
arsenal to guarantee the conditions of fair competition and protect the
productive know-how and infrastructure
of foreign holdings or acquisitions,
will be at the heart of this round table debate.
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