Financing a Competitive and Resilient Europe – Joint Contributions from France and Germany
November 6, in Berlin, in cooperation with the French Embassy
Ensuring Europe’s competitiveness is more urgent than ever. While the EU Commission has outlined political frameworks like the Clean Industrial Deal (CID), a reliable financing strategy to match these ambitions is still largely missing. Germany and France, as Europe’s industrial heavyweights, are central to supporting the Commission in delivering such a strategy and mobilizing private capital at scale.
A Shared Vision for Industrial Policy
The High-Level Roundtable brought together 30 experts from politics, industry, finance, supervisory authorities, and central banks. The discussion highlighted the necessity of a unified Franco-German impulse:
Increasing Efficiency: Reducing unnecessary administrative friction between the financial system and the real economy to accelerate investment.
Mutual Responsibility: Defining how member states can best support the Commission in delivering a secure financing framework.
Resilience through Decarbonization: Positioning the green transition as a guarantee for future competitiveness and economic stability.
Strategic Cooperation
The event underscored that shared objectives and collaboratively developed solutions are the only way to master the enormous financing needs of the transformation. The insights gained from this roundtable will serve as a foundation for further developing sectoral action plans within the European framework.