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Programme Policy Retreat Schlaining 2023
 

Issues Notes

• Opening Dialogue on the US Inflation Reduction Act

• Panel on Trade and Climate
• Panel on Friendshoring
• Leader’s Dialogue on Global Alliances
• Panel on Clean Tech - Skills
• Panel on Industrial Competitiveness

• Leader’s Dialogue on the EU Budget and the Green Transition
• Panel on Geoeconomics
• Panel on Investing into Green Transition

A) Core Documents

• A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the New Age
  The Green Deal Industrial Plan (europa.eu)
   
• Speech by President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on EU-China relations
  • Speech by the President on EU-China relations (europa.eu)
  • Video: https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video/I-239532?&lg=INT
     
• European Council Conclusions, March 2023
  • European Council conclusions, 23 March 2023 - Consilium (europa.eu)
    Direct Link to PDF: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-4-2023-INIT/en/pdf
     
• The European Green Deal Industrial Plan and U.S. Inflation Reduction Act
  Joint Statement EU-US TTC in Sweden (europa.eu)

B) Further Reference Materials

1. Websites of the European Commission

• Speech by the President at the GLOBSEC 2023 Bratislava Forum (europa.eu)
  Video: https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/video/I-241725?&lg=INT
• European Critical Raw Materials Act (europa.eu)
• Net-Zero Industry Act (europa.eu)
• Clean energy competitiveness (europa.eu)
• Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (europa.eu)
• REPowerEU: affordable, secure and sustainable energy for Europe (europa.eu)
• Corporate sustainability due diligence (europa.eu)
• Harnessing Talent in Europe: a new boost for EU Regions (europa.eu)
• Environmental economy – statistics on employment and growth - Statistics Explained (europa.eu)
• Sustainable development in EU trade agreements (europa.eu)
• The green employment and skills transformation: insights from a European Green Deal skills forecast scenario (europa.eu)

2. Other Sources

• EU-US climate and energy relations in light of the Inflation Reduction Act | Think Tank | European Parliament (europa.eu)
   
• Financial Times guest commentary by EVP Dombrovskis, EVP Timmermans, EVP Vestager
  • Europe cannot afford to engage in tit-for-tat with the US (Financial Times, 26 January 2023)
     
• Collection of resources from the Austrian Economic Chamber on “Reglobalisation: Changing Patterns”
  • Schwerpunkt Außenwirtschaft 2021-2022 (WKO, 29 June 2022)
     
• Europe’s Green Industrial Policy and the United States’ IRA | DGAP (DGAP, 21 March 2023)
   
• What friendshoring means for global supply chains (Raconteur, 30 March 2023)
   
• Martin Sandbu - The EU should welcome a green subsidy race | Financial Times (ft.com)
   
• How Europe should answer the US Inflation Reduction Act (bruegel.org)
   
• The looming deep crisis in Europe – and what to do about it (ÖGfE: Policy Briefs 16 February 2023)

• Hertie School Jacques Delors Centre - For climate, profits, or resilience?

• Christine Lagarde - A new global map - European resilience in a changing world (bis.org)

• Climate Action and Environmental Sustainability Overview 2023 (eib.org)