How can we create a dynamic, competitive European high-tech manufacturing base?

Our recommendations are designed to connect the dots between different policy areas – climate, environment, digital, internal market, trade and more – and to translate policy priorities into actionable legislative and regulatory projects. Taking a holistic approach ensures that potential conflicts or overlaps between policy areas are foreseen and addressed, creating a more streamlined and conducive policy framework than the often disjointed and confusing picture our industries are currently facing. 

We are looking to the newly elected members of the European Parliament to focus on competitiveness as a key part of their mandate. Europe is falling behind other major economies and must act now, with urgency, to reverse the trend. 

Legislators have the opportunity and responsibility to boost Europe’s competitiveness by recognising where things have gone wrong and creating a policy environment where businesses can once again flourish. 

• Our key recommendations on the single market cover the tangible steps needed to realise its full potential for high-tech manufacturers.  

• Our key recommendations on the circular economy outline how coherent and implementable policy can be created on this topic. 

• Our key recommendations on investments include practical actions on how the EU can reverse the current underinvestment crisis and create a favourable climate to attract investments in new technologies. 

• Our key recommendations on digital policy offer actionable steps for creating a digital policy that will allow Europe’s technology industries to flourish. 

• Coming soon: key recommendations on energy and climate with practical guidance on how to make the green transition a success. 

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