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🔴 today’s Euractiv panel moderated by Jennifer Baker on deindustrialisation: can it still be resisted? Some key takeaways from the panellists 🔹Arthur Corbin « The world has changed in a radical way. We are at a turning point on how the eu will evolve. We need to take a value chain approach with Made in Europe at the heart of a proactive industrial policy. We must be open to the world but leverage our internal market better» 🔹Sylvie Lemoine « A lot has been done on paper but we don’t feel it on the ground. The situation is worsening: trade pressure, security threats. There has been Sixfold increased closures in the last 4 years. Close to 10% of capacity closed. Europe must create the conditions to invest » 🔹Nicolas schmit FEPS Europe « We have been confronted with deindustralisation for at least 50 years it’s not a new phenomenon. Many parts of europe have still not recovered that’s why we must act boldly There is currently a lack of industrial policy and productivity, to combat this we need a Europe capable of putting real policies in place Europe has good resources that we have to use better and redirect to the relevant sectors foreign economic European trade policy » 🔹Michael Vassiliadis « We engage into the Transformation with the promise that it will deliver good industrial jobs old recipe of deregulation will not work we need more europe. We need to have a broader concept of security that covers production and value chains » 🔹Judith Kirton-Darling « We have two roads infront of us : one with old recepies that have proven to be infective and with austerity policies that undermine European industries further The second road, which we can’t see all the way down, has a proactive industrial policy, a made in europe agenda and an important promise of quality jobs for the workforce international cooperation » Europe and its workers need Investment not blank cheques and they must come with Social conditionalities attached!