Industrial strategy
Seven reality checks on Britain’s sunshine spending review
Rachel Reeves, Britain’s finance minister, laid out four years of government spending with a smile. Will it last?
Britain at a crossroads: Finance, industry and the global adjustment
Europe’s defense awakening needs a second engine
Labour’s AI gold rush gets stuck in the mud
Arnault rejects Macron’s call to freeze investment in US
In Trump’s war on clean energy, China (and everyone else) wins
Starmer urged to back EU mobility as Brexit summit looms
Save our Steel: Trump’s tariffs and Chinese overcapacity force governments to act
Governments the world over are racing to keep their steel industries alive. From the U.K. to France, the EU and Australia: Billions are reserved to counter global overcapacity and Donald Trump’s steep tariffs.
Europe has risky reliance on China for low-tech chips, auditors warn
Brussels is far from meeting its targets to reshore microchips manufacturing.
City climate action is a path to economic transformation
Europe’s climate and industrial policies are inextricably linked — cities are at the heart of both
The big unanswered questions from Keir Starmer’s British Steel takeover
How far is Labour willing to go to prop up Britain’s struggling industries? And will it be enough to see off the Farage threat?
EU industry chief hopes bourbon will be spared in response to Trump tariffs
Stéphane Séjourné says he expected “good news,” which will provide succor for the French booze industry.
How Trump is forcing Europe to get real on steel
The EU wants to rearm, reindustrialize and refinance as Donald Trump’s United States abandons the role of global policeman.
Why sh*t’s about to get real for Keir Starmer
A flurry of crucial policy reviews on areas that could define the U.K. prime minister’s government are coming due. POLITICO has you covered.
Trump reignites Europe’s Franco-German engine
Officials in Paris and Berlin are excited about the good relationship incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has with French President Emmanuel Macron.
How Britain’s slickest energy lobbyist wooed Labour
Octopus Energy boss Greg Jackson says he knows how to bring down bills. Others claim his ideas will starve the U.K. of green investment.
Brexit stole the show from London Fashion Week — and gifted it to Paris
As red tape and higher costs hammer British designers, France is ready to pounce.
Europe’s new industrial hope: Don’t just pick losers, create winners
Tailoring what governments buy is ‘one of the most important ammunitions we have’ in fighting climate change and economic decline.
EU offers its own ‘win-win’ minerals deal to Ukraine
“The added value Europe offers is that we will never demand a deal that’s not mutually beneficial,” top official Stéphane Séjourné says.
The end of Germany’s climate crusade
One of the world’s most climate-ambitious governments is about to fall, replaced by a likely chancellor who says green policy went too far.
As Trump arrives, Macron hints NATO spending target is too low
The French president warned Europe should prepare for a U.S. withdrawal from Europe.
EU industry chief warns Trump: Trade war won’t let us hit defense spending target
Stéphane Séjourné said Europe needs to invest more in defense but that it would be impossible to do so amid a trade war.
What counts as sovereign in the cloud?
Exploring the legal and practical challenges and opportunities for both customers and providers
Pay for weapons to keep your freedom, warn Europe’s Big 5 defense spenders
Germany, the U.K., France, Poland and Italy want to boost defense production and slash regulations.
Starmer banks on AI as his big economic plan falters
Rishi Sunak positioned the U.K. as a world-leader on AI safety. Keir Starmer is adopting a more boosterish stance.
France’s man in Brussels touts a strategy to save Europe’s embattled industry
The European Commission’s industry chief is lining up help for energy-hungry industries, aiming to stoke demand for them via public procurement.
Biden blocks US Steel sale to Japanese competitor
The president has long opposed the sale to Japan’s Nippon Steel.
Musk calls AfD ‘last spark of hope’ for Germany in op-ed in Welt
Billionaire entrepreneur’s backing of the far-right party has triggered a backlash in the run-up to snap elections in Germany set for Feb. 23.
Poland’s role in shaping Europe’s energy transition and competitiveness
During a tumultuous yet transformative time, PKEE seeks to drive a cleaner, more prosperous and resilient region