EU: a fresh set of measures to renew Europe’s industry

In his annual state of the union address, the President of the European Commission announced a new strategy for Europe that would enable industry to ‘stay or become the world leader in innovation, digitalization and decarbonisation.” The ‘renewed EU Industrial Policy Strategy’ was officially presented to the press on 18 September 2017.
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The EU Commission highlighted six priority areas, namely the Single Market, digitalization, the circular economy, investment, innovation, an international dimension, and cooperation between stakeholders. Social dialogue is briefly touched on as part of education and training, two tools that assist people to cope with the downsides of industrial transformation and in this vein the European Commission announced it was shortly (autumn 2017) extending its skills agenda to add further key industry s

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