Industrial manufacturing: Clear survey majority for “Made in Europe” requirement for firms | EUROtoday

According to a survey, a transparent majority of individuals in Germany are in favor of European authorized necessities for industrial manufacturing. In a consultant survey commissioned by IG Metall, 70 % of respondents agreed with the assertion: “Companies that sell products on the European market should be legally obliged to locate part of their production in the EU.”

Corresponding necessities might be contained in a draft of the so-called Industrial Acceleration Act, which the EU Commission plans to current within the subsequent few days. Recently, variations of opinion concerning the strictness of the principles turned clear.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz critically assessed France’s far-reaching proposals for a compulsory “Made in Europe” precept, which might give choice to European suppliers in public investments. Such necessities ought to solely be used for important, strategically vital sectors and solely as a final resort, demanded the CDU chairman.

In the survey, 9 out of ten individuals stated firms ought to solely obtain state assist in the event that they guarantee manufacturing and jobs in Europe in return. In the opinion of 83 % of these surveyed, solely firms that assure safe jobs in Europe must be chosen for public contracts.

“If politicians take tax money into their hands, it must strengthen Europe as an industrial location and secure jobs here,” demanded the second chairman of IG Metall, Jürgen Kerner.

Local manufacturing is the logical reply to a world by which tariffs, subsidies and unfair commerce practices decide the worldwide economic system and destroy jobs in Europe day by day. The union expects the federal authorities to decisively assist the “Made in Europe” initiative of the EU Industry Commissioner Stéphane Séjourné.