Editorial

Dear Reader,

If you missed the latest Commission announcement (though we’re sure you didn’t! 😉), here’s a quick recap:

• The Commission presented the Clean Industrial Deal, which aims at supporting the competitiveness and resilience of Europe’s industry. The Deal will accelerate decarbonisation, while securing the future of manufacturing in Europe. The Deal presents measures to boost every stage of production, with a focus on: 
  • Energy-intensive industries such as steel, metals, and chemicals, that urgently need support to decarbonise, switch to clean energy, and tackle high costs, unfair global competition, and complex regulations;
  • The clean-tech sector which is at the heart of future competitiveness and necessary for industrial transformation, circularity, and decarbonisation.

As part of the Deal, the Commission also released the Affordable Energy Action Plan, which aims at speeding up the roll-out of clean energy, accelerating electrification, completing the internal energy market with physical interconnections and using energy more efficiently and cut dependence on imported fossil fuels.

What are the next steps? 

Operationalising the Clean Industrial Deal, the Clean Energy Investment Strategy will aim to facilitate transition at the lowest possible cost and unlock private capital by removing barriers to investment to meet the EU’s climate neutrality by 2050.

 What does this mean for the ID-E? 

As part of Round 17 of WG meetings, our WG Members will have the opportunity to provide key inputs and considerations on the design of the upcoming Strategy. The meetings will take place during the next two weeks.

 On the ID-E, what a month it has been!

• The 3rd Plenary Meeting of the Investors Dialogue took place on 27 February 2025 and gathered around 270 participants both onsite (Brussels) and online. The event report is available in this edition.

Yours truly,
The Editor