{"id":8026,"date":"2026-04-04T03:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/8026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:18:29","slug":"von-der-leyens-industry-master-plan-runs-into-trouble-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/8026\/","title":{"rendered":"Von der Leyen\u2019s industry master plan runs into trouble \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

A draft of the Industrial Accelerator Act, obtained by POLITICO<\/a> last week, states that \u201cMade in EU\u201d should refer to \u201ccontent originating from the European Union and the European Economic Area,\u201d meaning from Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. However, the EU executive also wants to identify \u201ctrusted partners\u201d whose manufacturing \u201cshould be deemed equivalent to Union origin content.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commission departments have different views on how to define trusted partners, mirroring the wider debate in EU capitals.<\/p>\n

DG TRADE leans towards including all countries with which the EU has an FTA, while DG GROW \u2014\u00a0S\u00e9journ\u00e9\u2019s department \u2014\u00a0wants a more restrictive criterion that would only award a \u201cMade in Europe\u201d label to countries within the EEA, a person briefed on the talks told POLITICO.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cI\u2019m confident we will eventually get there, accommodating the various opinions while maintaining the IAA\u2019s high degree of ambition,\u201d said St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9. | Pool photo by Ken Ishii via Getty Images<\/p>\n

This divergence also reflects differences in the German and French positions<\/a>. For France, the IAA isn\u2019t about penalizing foreign companies but rather boosting industrial production on EU soil. By contrast, the German Ministry of Economic Affairs argues that trading partners shouldn\u2019t be hindered by the Made in EU criteria.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The plan has also caused jitters in the U.K., which is sending its top trade ministers<\/a> across the channel on a \u201cMade in Europe\u201d charm offensive next month to head off the threat that British manufacturers will be shut out of EU public procurement.<\/p>\n

S\u00e9journ\u00e9 played down the concerns.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A draft of the Industrial Accelerator Act, obtained by POLITICO last week, states that \u201cMade in EU\u201d should…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[363,250,7659,1502,3085,4857,12,467,2056,245,249,4341,4093,2432,952,251,7660,7661,2511,2435,5821,2060,1742,7662,5309,2444,7663,3601,1745,1436,17,403],"class_list":{"0":"post-8026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ursula-von-der-leyen","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-clean-industrial-deal","11":"tag-companies","12":"tag-competitiveness","13":"tag-department","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-exports","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-germany","19":"tag-iceland","20":"tag-india","21":"tag-industry","22":"tag-italy","23":"tag-japan","24":"tag-labels","25":"tag-liechtenstein","26":"tag-lobbying","27":"tag-manufacturing","28":"tag-mercosur","29":"tag-norway","30":"tag-procurement","31":"tag-public-procurement","32":"tag-regulation","33":"tag-steel","34":"tag-stephane-sejourne","35":"tag-tariffs","36":"tag-trade","37":"tag-united-kingdom","38":"tag-united-states","39":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116344278572585721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}