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Bdaily in Brussels to report industrial policy progress

The European Commission’s ambition to raise industry’s contribution to EU GDP to 20% by 2020 is soon to be reviewed.

Bdaily is heading to Brussels this week to bring you all the goings on from the European Industrial Policy Conference, where progress on this target will be looked at, and political leaders and business people will debate what can be done to restore industrial growth.

We’lll be reporting from the conference on June 5 and 6, bringing you updates on the discussions and how the European Commission has measured progress so far.

Among the topics to be addressed will be: what can be done to relaunch industry? Financing industrial investments in the aftermath of the banking crisis; and developing alternatives to bank financing.

We’ll be putting questions to the likes of European Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani, amongst other EU seniors.

The conference takes place against a backdrop of languishing manufacturing activity across the EU’s five largest economies. Member states must look at ways to address this, as well as boost available financing for industry; and the use of Commission instruments for industrial rejuvenation, such as the Steel Action Plan and Entrepreneurship Action Plan.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .