While negotiations for the next EU budget are underway, the European Commission’s plan to set up the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF) as the main vehicle to achieve its clean industrial agenda.

In this episode, Marilisa Marigliano, Policy Officer at Counter Balance, talks with Angela Wigger, Associate Professor at the University of Radboud and Rodrigo Fernandez, a self-employed researcher and a political economist with over 20 years of experience at working at NGOs and several universities. They debunk  power relations and governance flaws in the current European industrial agenda and raise urgent questions about who benefits, and who actually decides the direction of Europe’s green transition. They also expose the power relations and governance flaws that open the door for distortions in the achievement of a truly just transition in European industry and explore alternatives to the current industrial policy. What would a transformative agenda look like?

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