Baixe Franco-German Manifesto: Industrial Policy for a United Europe in the 21st Century e outras Resumos em PDF para Economia, somente na Docsity! A Franco-German Manifesto for a European industrial policy fit for the 21 st Century At a time of increasingly fast changes globally, Europe must pool its strengths and be more united than ever. Europe’s economic strength in the coming decades will be hugely dependent on our ability to remain a global manufacturing and industrial power. The industrial sector of the 20 th century is changing before our eyes due to digitalization. Brand new industrial sectors are appearing such as those linked to artificial intelligence, others are changing at great speed such as the car or railways sectors, and other traditional sectors will continue to be essential such as steel or aluminium. If Europe still wants to be a manufacturing powerhouse in 2030, we need a genuine European industrial policy. The investments required to enable Europe to compete on the global stage and the development of long-term industrial strategies aiming inter alia at a carbon-neutral economy are so important that we can only succeed if we pool our funding, our skills, and our expertise. The choice is simple when it comes to industrial policy: unite our forces or allow our industrial base and capacity to gradually disappear. A strong industry is at the heart of sustainable and inclusive growth. And above all, it’s what will give Europe its economic sovereignty and independence. To succeed, we need much more strategic thinking than in the past. That is why France and Germany call for a more ambitious European industrial strategy with clear objectives for 2030. This should also be a top priority for the next European Commission. The social market economy has been and will continue to be a successful model for the EU and worldwide. We should continue to strengthen and improve it. The European industrial strategy is a strategic aim in this respect. Building on our discussions with other countries, and as reflected in the recent Friends of the Industry statement of December 2018, we consider the future European industrial strategy should be built around three pillars: 1. Massively investing in innovation: We will only succeed if we are the ones creating, developing and producing new technologies. That is why we need: To create a European strategy for technology funding within the scope of InvestEU and with the involvement of the relevant, experienced EU-institutions (such as the European Investment Fund - EIF) capable of leveraging the private capital covering the equity needs for start-up and innovative tech companies. A strong EU commitment to disruptive innovation within the framework of the European Innovation Council (EIC). The goal is to support very high-risk deep tech projects at the European level with a large autonomy given to program managers allowing them to make high-risk technological bets in a top-down approach while resorting to the best private expertise and technology, e.g. in the fields of health, energy, climate, security and digital technology. Such principles are partly in place in the pathfinder of the EIC pilot for 2019-2020, but they should be strengthened in the definitive EIC proposal. To become world leaders on Artificial Intelligence: France and Germany will intensify their cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI) and shape the EU’s ambitions expressed in its coordinated plan on AI. We agree to promote Franco-German cooperation in research and development as well as in the application of AI by structurally underpinning our partnership with a common research and innovation network. The network shall inter alia address the transfer of research to businesses, including in the areas of health, transport and robotics. To this end, a working group of the economic ministries deals with cooperation in AI focussing on four topics: 1. Data sharing, 2. Cross-border experimental zones, 3. Best practices to achieve the transfer of research results to businesses, 4. Technical and ethical standards.
