A fallen taboo. The words "industrial policy" have been taboo for a long time in the European Union. It was only in the early 1990s that they were readmitted into the Community language, following a lengthy quarrel born from the fact that, according to Germany and a few other Member States, these terms evoked the "five year" plans of the Soviet Union and other forms of centralised economies. Given that no EU country wanted such a slide, it was not difficult to agree on different terminology;...