Industrial strategy

Commission must explain how it can achieve technological autonomy without a clearer plan, and a stricter timeline for launching new technologies by 2030, MEPs say

MEPs and research organisations say more needs to be done to align the strategy with research and innovation funding programmes over the next seven years

The EU’s new industrial strategy, with its aim of driving innovation in advanced technologies, could lead to established economic development policies being seen as outdated. But tried-and-tested approaches, especially Cohesion policy, have complementary objectives - and an important role to play

There is more than a hint of dirigisme in the first explicit national industrial strategy since the 1970s. The government says it is not about picking winners, but shaping the environment as a whole