12/03/2018 (Agence Europe) – At the Competitiveness Council on Monday 12 March, the EU member states adopted conclusions, for the third time, calling on the European Commission to present a “global” industrial strategy for 2030 and beyond. The document described in our publication (see EUROPE 11919) also calls for a concrete action plan to be introduced. The Bulgarian Minister for the Economy, Emil Karanikolov, stated, “this is the major success of today”. The Commissioner for Industry and the Internal market, Elżbieta Bieńkowska, declared that the member states and European Commission now knew what direction to go in. The succession of conclusions follows the presentation of the European Commission’s “revised” industrial strategy in September 2017 (EUROPE 11861), which did not prove very convincing in Parliament or among the member states. (PH)