At a Friends of Industry summit in Paris on Tuesday 18 December, some 18 Member States adopted a joint declaration to set out an industrial roadmap for the next European Commission.
"We are now at the crossroad. Either we take the necessary decisions to be an industrial powerhouse, or we will be dependant on other continents, first of all China and the United States," said French Finance Minister Bruno Lemaire, who expressed his satisfaction with the growing success of these summits, which...