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EU strategic autonomy and industrial policy

Testimony before the Committee on European Affairs at the French National Assembly.

Publishing date
12 May 2023
Authors
Simone Tagliapietra
Europe's industry policy

On 11 May 2023, Bruegel Senior fellow Simone Tagliapietra presented a testimony before the Committee on European Affairs of the French National Assembly on strategic autonomy and EU industrial policy.

Europe’s industrial policy, with its green and digital twin focus, has long been emphasising strategic autonomy as a central policy objective. However, the notion of strategic autonomy is not uncontroversial, notably as its objective remains unclear. In what circumstances would Europe be able to call itself strategically autonomous? And how can Europe strike the right balancing act between economic efficiency and geopolitical resilience? Answering these fundamental questions represents a key prerequisite to building a solid EU industrial policy.

Here are some Bruegel analyses that underpinned this testimony:

About the authors

  • Simone Tagliapietra

    Simone Tagliapietra is a Senior fellow at Bruegel.

    He is also a Part-time professor at the Florence School of Transnational Governance (STG) of the European University Institute and an Adjunct professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Europe of The Johns Hopkins University.

    His research focuses on the EU climate and energy policy, and on its industrial and social dimensions. With a record of numerous policy and scientific publications, also in leading journals such as Nature and Science, he is the author of Global Energy Fundamentals (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and co-author of The Macroeconomics of Decarbonisation (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

    On the basis of his policy and scientific production, Dr. Tagliapietra regularly supports EU and national institutions in the development of their public policies in the field of climate and energy, also through regular interaction with public decision-makers in EU and national institutions, as well as through regular parliamentary testimonies in the European Parliament and various national parliamentary assemblies inside and outside Europe, such as the French Senate, the UK House of Lords and the US Senate. His columns and policy work are widely published and cited in leading international media.

    Dr. Tagliapietra also is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) and Senior associate of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. He holds a PhD in International Political Economy from the Catholic University of Milan, where he previously graduated under the supervision of Professor Alberto Quadrio Curzio and where he also served as an Assistant professor (tenure-track) until 2024. Born in the Dolomites in 1988, he speaks Italian, English and French.

Theme
Energy and climate policy
Language
English

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