On 20th February 2024 Euromines joined 70+ industry leaders during the European Industry Summit in Antwerp, hosted by BASF, CEFIC (European Chemicals Industry Association), and Belgium’s EU Presidency, and signed the Declaration for an EU Industrial Deal, requesting that the European Commission makes this a flagship policy in its next mandate.
Read the Declaration here: https://antwerp-declaration.eu/
Download the PDF https://antwerp-declaration.eu/pdf/declaration.pdf
We need to keep industry in Europe because the industry will deliver the climate solutions Europe needs.
In the 2023 State of the Union Address, President von der Leyen already said “As we enter the next phase of the European Green Deal, one thing will never change…..We will keep supporting European Industry throughout this transition.” This needs to be a European approach, instead of twenty-seven different national incentives, by keeping and strengthening the integrity of the internal market while keeping global competition better into account.
We need to keep industry in Europe because the industry will deliver the climate solutions Europe needs. Solutions that citizens and governments can use, but that can only be invented and implemented with speed and scale by the industry, and the support from governments. Only with a strong industrial fabric and strengthened social dialogue in Europe can we ensure that the green transition will be a Just Transition, as agreed in the Val Duchesse tripartite declaration. A competitive European industry, based on a European Industrial Deal, is the “conditio sine qua non” for the successful delivery of the EU Green Deal. It is also the only way to show to the rest of the world that the Green Deal works for all.
