Now the EU wants to inject a dose of “buying European” in its own climatic efforts.
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The EU executive strategy includes six pillars: lowering energy prices, creating demand, investing investments, ensuring access to key materials, working on global partnerships and workers’ reskulling.
The objective: “the current European industry with a stronger profitability analysis for significant climate investments in industries with high energy intensity and clean technology.”
The project places the measures to stimulate demand for friendly goods “manufactured in Europe” at the heart of the clean industrial case, reaffirming an existing objective to make 40% of the main components of EU proper technology in the block .
To this end, the Commission wishes to set quotas to ensure that governments and other public authorities buy such goods.
The clean industrial agreement envisages both “minimum requirements of local content” and “resilience and sustainability criteria”, all set by the legislation to come later this year. He also indicates that the Commission will revise the rules of the public procurement of the EU in 2026 to “make criteria with a European preference a structural characteristic” for the “strategic sectors”.
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