SECTORAL POLICIES / Internal market

Strategic autonomy, European Commission wants to “regain control” of standardisation process

Brussels, 02/02/2022 (Agence Europe)

The European Commission presented a European standardisation strategy on Wednesday 2 February to strengthen the EU’s normative influence on the international stage, with the aim of making the EU more autonomous in the face of increasingly competitive international players.

“We are trying to regain control”, said Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton, adding that the EU had been open “to all winds” from outside players for too long.

Thus, the EU has gradually “lost...