The ‘Competitiveness’ Council of the EU, meeting on Thursday 24 February, was cut short due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and an extraordinary European Council meeting that evening (see EUROPE B12898A1). However, although the meeting was disrupted, this new crisis at the EU’s borders reinforces the EU’s strategic autonomy and all the actions undertaken by the European Commission, said the European Commissioner for Internal Market, Thierry Breton and the French Industry...