He metal and the steel They have become key sectors Not just for reinforce European industry but to shield the Supplies Before high geopolitical tension, the day the president of USA, Donald Trumpplans to announce your new tariffs. The European Commission This Wednesday has presented in the European Parliament in Strasbourg its plan to support the steel and metallurgical industry with the aim of guaranteeing its viabilitymaking a call to increase domestic demand against the growing global competition and high operational costs.
“On the day that President Trump has decided to call ‘liberation’, I invite you to urgency,” said the vice president of the European Commission (EC) for the industrial strategy, Stéphane Séjournébefore the hemicycle of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Séjourné has celebrated the “unanimity and invitation to get to work quickly” around the plan for the European metallurgical sector, highlighting that the ambition of the commission is to “go quickly” in its application.
The vice president warned that “for the sector it is the last call” to establish a “concrete, organized and structured” plan that guarantees the “security y Competitiveness“Of the industry. In this sense, it highlighted the weight of the” public market “, which represents” 14% of European GDP “, as a key element for”create the necessary demand“.
Export restriction
Séjourné also referred to the need to address the export of strategic materials. “The scrap exports They have been bent, “he said, in reference to the metals used for other industries, leaving open the possibility that the commission works” in export restrictions if necessary in the coming weeks and months. ”
The sector, key to EU’s supply security, faces a Strong competition global and high operating costs, which has led to Brussels to raise new measures to accelerate the Transition to a more sustainable and competitive industry. This, in a European context marked by the Energy increase and the need for investments for Deperbonizationfactors that affect not only steel and metal, but also other high consumption industries such as chemicalthe binthe Cementera and that of glass.
European mining
Changing from French to Spanish, Séjourné transferred “his condolences to dead miners in Asturias” and stressed that “it is always a sector in which it is dangerous Working, “although he recalled that” conditions have changed a lot “in recent decades.
The vice president defended that he prefers Promote “mining activity in Europe” Before in Africa“where” certain environmental and labor standards cannot be guaranteed.
In this sense, he recognized the European “dependence” in raw materials. Regarding industrial competitiveness, he emphasized that “the conditions in China are not linked to a green and worker rights,” but stressed that European competitiveness “is not marked by that, but that we have to work” in structural measures to strengthen the sector in the EU.
