France intends to take advantage of its presidency of the Council of the European Union to push its agenda for strategic industrial autonomy.
It hopes to notify or “pre-notify” four important new projects of common European interest (Piiec) to the Commission during this first half of 2022.
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After two of these transnational centers already launched, on electric batteries and nanotechnologies, the four new ones concern hydrogen, health, the cloud (computing in "clouds") and semiconductors.
These are projects already announced, which Paris hopes to materialize.
The objective is to give substance to a doctrine developed over the years by Emmanuel Macron and his Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire.
During the presentation of his priorities for the French presidency, on December 9, the Head of State hammered home his desire to
"make Europe a great continent of production, innovation, job creation"
with
" the construction of industrial sectors ...
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