EU’s Clean Industrial Deal: what next for Europe’s energy transition?
The European Commission has unveiled its new strategy to make EU industries more competitive with cheap energy. Does this mean the bloc will go full speed ahead in terms of building more wind farms and solar power plants? Jörg Mühlenhoff looks into what the details of the Clean Industrial Deal mean for Europe’s energy transition. In the summer of 2024, when Ursula von der Leyen presented her first plans for her second mandate in charge of the European Commission, many observers wondered whether her Clean Industrial Deal would become the political ‘assassin’ of the previous European Green Deal or rather its offspring. The Clean Industrial Deal was published as one of the new flagship projects during the first 100 days of von der Leyen’s new term on 26 February 2025. And it still builds to a large extent on the objectives of its predecessor, so we can therefore call it its child. Parents, however, know that their children often want to take their distance and mark their identity by going in exactly the opposite direction of the …
The European Commission has unveiled its new strategy to make EU industries more competitive with cheap energy. Does this mean the bloc will go full speed ahead in terms of building more wind farms and solar power plants? Jörg Mühlenhoff looks into what the details of the Clean Industrial Deal mean for Europe’s energy transition. Credits: Miha Creative | Shutterstock, All rights reserved.
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