The European industry stands at a crossroads. Rising geopolitical tensions led i. a. to trade wars. At the same time, we still face the major task of mastering the green and digital transition. One reaction to these challenges are increased calls for local content requirements in the allocation of subsidies and in public procurement procedures to protect industrial production in Europe. From a labour perspective, we support the introduction of local content requirements, but we also identify some challenges. At our event, we discussed how we can use local content not only to promote European value-added but also to preserve and to create high-quality jobs in European industries.

Welcome and Keynote

Julia Eder, Expert for EU & International Affairs, PRO-GE

Panel Discussion

Reinhold Binder, Federal Chair, PRO-GE

Judith Kirton-Darling, General Secretary, industriAll Europe

Evelyn Regner, Member of the European Parliament (S&D)

Michael Soder, Industrial Policy Expert, AK Vienna 

Moderator

David Hafner, Head of the ÖGB European Office