On the margins of #COMPET, State Secretary Rakocija joined the Ministerial Alliance for Energy-Intensive Industries.
🇭🇷 stressed that the energy transition must go hand in hand with competitiveness, energy security & affordability, while enabling investment in decarbonisation.

At #COMPET, State Sec. Rakocija supported modernisation of merger control guidelines & welcomed Chips Act 2.0 as key to 🇪🇺 tech sovereignty & resilience. 🇭🇷 highlighted its chip design capabilities & Semiconductor Competence Centre, bringing research and industry closer together.

Beim #COMPET-Rat in Brüssel plädierte Bundesminister Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer für einen Wirtschaftspatriotismus in Europa. Denn die Transformation ist nur dann möglich, wenn industrielle Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Klimaschutz zusammengedacht werden.
#Industriepolitik #Emissionshandel

#COMPET | Ministers are meeting in Brussels today for the Competitiveness Council. Belgium is represented by Deputy PM David Clarinval and Minister Pierre-Yves Jeholet 🇧🇪

On the agenda ⇊
🔹 Merger guidelines
🔹 Chips Act 2.0
🔹 Embedding economic security in EU competitiveness policy

🇩🇪 Federal Minister Katherina Reiche @bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de attends the 🇪🇺 #COMPET Council in Brussels today.

Competitiveness is key to Europe's strength, resilience & defence – from scaling up chip production with the #ChipsAct 2.0 to #MadeWithEurope: produced in Europe, with our partners

#Servicepost: ⏰ Coming up at +/- 09:15.

🇩🇪 Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Katherina Reiche @bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de will give a statement ahead of today’s 🇪🇺 #COMPET Internal Market, Industry, Research and Space.

Watch the statement live: audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/de

‼️ @etuc-ces.bsky.social's @estherlynch.bsky.social ahead of tomorrows's #COMPET @consilium.europa.eu: "Brussels proposal risks race to the bottom on workers’ rights"‼️
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