Past Event
What industrial policy for the European Green Deal?
This event will be a workshop, aiming to look into the design and implementation process of the European Green Deal. Each session will be introduced by three short presentations aimed at launching the discussion among all workshop participants.
President von der Leyen established climate change as a top priority for her European Commission, promising to deliver a European Green Deal able to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. To be politically and socially accepted and supported, the European Green Deal has to turn decarbonisation into an historical occasion to revitalise the European industry, and therefore ensure long-term economic growth and jobs. That is, while heading towards climate neutrality by 2050, the European economy has to remain highly competitive at global level, in view of facing increasing competition from China and other big players. While EU countries carry out their own industrial policies, it is important to also have a broader EU-level industrial policy, to prevent market distortions and to allow synergies and economies of scale.
This workshop aims to look into this question, which is set to play a central role in the design and implementation process of the European Green Deal. Each session will be introduced by three short presentations aimed at launching the discussion among all workshop participants. The programme has thus been designed to allow a maximum time for discussion and interaction among all workshop participants, to ensure a frank and constructive debate.
This is an invitation-only event open only to Bruegel’s members and select experts.
Schedule
08:30-09:00
Breakfast and check-in
09:00-10:30
Session 1 – Industrial policy for the European Green Deal: the strategy
Chair: Simone Tagliapietra, Senior Fellow
Jos Delbeke, Senior Adviser at the European Political Strategy Centre, European Commission and Former Director General at DG Climate Action, European Commission
Markus Hess, Deputy Director General Industrial Policy and Future Mobility, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany
Megan Richards, Former Director for Energy Policy, DG ENER, EU Commission
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:30
Session 2 – Industrial policy for the European Green Deal: the policy mix
Chair: Reinhilde Veugelers, Senior Fellow
Bertrand Déprez, Vice-President, EU Government Affairs, Schneider Electric
Laura Piovesan, Director of the Innovation and Competitiveness Department, European Investment Bank (EIB)
Mary Veronica Tovšak Pleterski, Director for Investment, growth and structural reforms, European Commission, DG ECFIN
Kurt Vandenberghe, Director, Policy Development and Coordination , European Commission, DG RTD
12:30-13:00
Lunch
13:00
End
Speakers
Jos Delbeke
Senior Adviser at the European Political Strategy Centre, European Commission and Former Director General at DG Climate Action, European Commission
Bertrand Déprez
Vice-President, EU Government Affairs, Schneider Electric
Markus Hess
Deputy Director General Industrial Policy and Future Mobility, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany
Laura Piovesan
Director of the Innovation and Competitiveness Department, European Investment Bank (EIB)
Megan Richards
Former Director for Energy Policy, DG ENER, EU Commission
Simone Tagliapietra
Senior Fellow
Mary Veronica Tovšak Pleterski
Director for Investment, growth and structural reforms, European Commission, DG ECFIN
Kurt Vandenberghe
Director, Policy Development and Coordination , European Commission, DG RTD
Reinhilde Veugelers
Senior Fellow
Location & Contact
Katja Knezevic
[email protected]
