EU leaders, who will meet on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 February in Brussels for an extraordinary summit, are expected to call for a “comprehensive approach” to respond to the US IRA and thereby strengthen Europe’s “sovereignty and strategic autonomy”, according to a draft set of conclusions of which EUROPE has a copy.
This approach would be broken down into several strands of action: - in the short term, simplify and accelerate procedures for granting State aid in strategic sectors...