As the world sees tectonic shifts, the European Union must raise to new and unprecedented challenges to ensure our competitiveness and security. The events of the last weeks make that clearer than ever. Our Union needs to be more independent, more autonomous, and more able to defend itself against any threats.
In the first 100 days of its mandate, the von der Leyen Commission has already made important steps towards those goals. The Commission launched many initiatives to boost the EU’s competitiveness, strengthen its defence capabilities, and increase its level of preparedness.
For the months and years ahead, we will once again need to shift gears to crisis mode. This Commission stands ready to answer these new challenges with exceptional actions at unprecedented scale, scope and speed.
Make Europe more competitive
• The Competitiveness Compass provides a roadmap to boost Europe’s competitiveness and secure its prosperity.
• The Clean Industrial Deal and the Action Plan for Affordable Energy will support and strengthen European energy-intensive industries and clean tech companies, while we continue our path towards climate neutrality by 2050.
• Two packages to simplify EU rules were adopted, to boost competitiveness and mobilise additional investments. They will bring total savings in annual administrative costs of around €6.3 billion and mobilise an additional investment capacity of €50 billion.
• Two strategic dialogues were launched respectively with the automotive sector and the steel sector and specific initiatives will be laid out on that basis, to make sure together the future of these industries is made in Europe. An Industrial Action Plan for the European Automotive sector was already adopted, setting out concrete measures to secure global competitiveness for our automotive industry and maintain a strong European production base.
• A Union of Skills, an Action Plan on Basic Skills, and a STEM Education Strategic Plan will support the development of human capital and make sure that European companies have access to the skills they need to scale up and be more competitive.
• 23 commissioners have held youth dialogues so far and by day 100, all of them would have had their exchanges with young people.
• Seven consortia were selected to establish the first AI factories across Europe, representing €1.5 billion in national and European funding. This is a major step to build an environment to train advanced AI models. Furthermore, with the new initiative InvestAI we will mobilise €200 billion for investment, including €20 billion for AI gigafactories.
• A Critical Medicines Act will be presented in the following days to ensure that our Union counts on a resilient and uninterrupted supply of critical medicines even in times of crisis.
• A Savings and Investments Union initiative will be launched shortly to provide incentives for risk capital and ensure investments flow seamlessly across the European Union.
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