New focus paper! 📣 What economic risks does the #EU face up to 2035 and what can they do to remain competitive? @elvirefabry and @SylvieMatelly, at @DelorsInstitute, provide concrete advise to strengthen EUs resilience. Read the full paper here: https://t.co/QNTxlB5EaN

📊 [#Infographie] Quelles ambitions UE en matière de #compétitivité? 🇪🇺 1/5 Initiatives annoncées, échéances, positionnement des groupes politiques du Parlement, attentes du couple franco-allemand 🇫🇷🇩🇪 Infographie par @Phucvinh_ & @AndreasEisl 👇 https://t.co/ObqGGIauoB

Check out our full paper with plenty of figures and analysis here: https://t.co/SXmSTBcrMu

Ideally, this EU approach to state aid would include common funding mechanisms allowing the Union to co-finance IPCEIs alongside national governments. National contributions could then benefit from the exemption for the co-financing of EU-funded programs under the new SGP.

Second, we underscore the need to strengthen the IPCEI instrument, with an enhanced role for the European Commission in ensuring that projects are selected based on merit rather than Member States’ fiscal capacity to provide subsidies.

First, we advocate for phasing out temporary crisis frameworks by the end of 2025. Instead, the EU should prioritize consolidating permanent state aid instruments, such as GBER aid and IPCEIs, to balance policy flexibility and pan-European strategic coordination.

Our analysis reveals significant cross-country variation in both the levels and composition of national state aid across these three domains. To avoid a subsidy race between Member States, we propose several policy solutions.

We provide an in-depth analysis of three key domains of the EU state aid regime: the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER), Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs), and the Temporary Frameworks introduced to respond to recent crises.

NEW PUBLICATION: In this Joint @DelorsInstitute – LUHNIP Policy Paper @donadica, @DZurstrassen and myself address the pressing issue of fragmentation within the EU Single Market resulting from the growing use of state aid by Member States. https://t.co/SXmSTBcrMu

REWATCH📺: Yesterday, I had the pleasure to discuss French fiscal and debt policies with @su_jeanette (@CerfaIfri) and @friede_hofmann (ARD) and the students of the @Uni_Wuppertal. You can rewatch our exchange here (in German):

In a study written for the @IFRI_ (in collaboration with the @DelorsInstitute) last autumn I analysed the major differences in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 public finances. You can find a link to the paper and my thread summarising it here: https://t.co/lu8nLc7Vlj

Next Tuesday (26.11. 16h00) I will discuss French fiscal and debt policies together with @su_jeanette (@CerfaIfri), @friede_hofmann (ARD) and the students of the @Uni_Wuppertal. @FNFreiheit @if_deutschland You can register for the event here:

If you couldn't make it, here you can find the replay of today's @DelorsInstitute #Euroquestions webinar where I presented my new EU industrial policy paper.

🇪🇺❔ [#Webinar] Do not miss next week #Euroquestions "A competitive European industrial policy for the EU" 🏭💶 with @AndreasEisl 📅 Wed. 9 October, 14:30-15:00 Info & registration 👉 https://t.co/GUWAuwb48y

💶 [#SingleMarket] For a competitive European #industry_policy in the in the EU Single Market, we suggest; ▶️ Common financing ▶️ Common governance ▶️ Common conditionalities All propositions by @AndreasEisl 👉 https://t.co/gbBh3JGk7I #EUindustry

Also make sure to sign up to tomorrow's #Euroquestions webinar (14h30-15h00), in which I will present the paper (as well as findings from an upcoming joint paper on state aid in the EU) and will happily engage with your questions and remarks: https://t.co/MYLxxIi1lC 7/7

For the complete analysis and more detailed policy recommendations, please consult the policy paper here: https://t.co/FQAwI8GcSm 6/7

Finally, the intelligent and consistent use of common conditionalities is key to ensure that subsidies lead to the achievement of shared public policy objectives while limiting corporate welfare and state-aid shopping across the EU. 5/7

Second, the existing state aid instruments need to be consolidated, become simpler and better integrated. Due to its comparatively European approach, the IPCEI model could serve as a blueprint for the future governance of the various EU industrial policy objectives. 4/7

First, the policy paper calls for the creation of an EU industrial policy fund whose financing should be based on two pillars: (1) an initial endowment preferably based on common debt and new own resources, and (2) arrangements to make the fund self-sustainable over time. 3/7