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Bertille Bayart: “Industrial policy, a French illusion”

2023-02-14T19:16:49.499Z


CHRONICLE - "Industrial policy", which in English designates state intervention in the economic field, is a French specialty.


It is written in black and white in the conclusions of the Council of European Heads of State and Government of February 9:

“The European Union will strengthen its

strategic sovereignty

.”

Sovereignty, the word is out.

Five and a half years after his speech at the Sorbonne -

"There is a European sovereignty to be built"

- Emmanuel Macron has finally convinced his partners who were initially perplexed by the big word.

"Europe will always be made of the untranslatable"

, argued the Head of State in 2017. A pandemic and a war later, the French emphasis enters the European lexicon.

“We have won the narrative battle”

, was moved at the Elysée last week.

The battle of ideas too?

In Paris, we claim all the paternity of the industrial “green pact” rolled out on February 1 by Ursula von der Leyen.

This is Europe's response to the large subsidy program launched in the United States by Joe Biden with the now famous Inflation Reduction Act.

This map of Brussels would be…

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Source: lefigaro

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