![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike China, the EU has increasingly insisted on upholding environmental and labour protection standards as part of trade deals – which has proven unpopular with some trading partners. However, this is necessary to find workable solutions,” she said. “Moral determinations are often made without technical and economic expertise. “We have to convince them of us and offer them more partnership than China, for example,” she said, adding that “moral perfection will not be achieved internationally on our own”. To provide the European car industry with new export markets, the EU should also strike more trade agreements with third countries, she said, mentioning African countries, Gulf states, Brazil and India as examples. Key challenges aheadĪs key challenges for the transformation of the car industry, Müller described the availability of clean energy and critical raw materials,įor the latter, Müller would like to see a new “raw materials agency” being set up at the EU level to prevent new trade dependencies to emerge. The long-awaited European Commission proposal to reduce air pollution from vehicles was released Thursday (10 November), modestly tightening exhaust emission standards for cars and vans and placing limits on particles shed from brakes and tyres for the first time. “This is anti-industry policy and ultimately anti-climate policy,” she added.ĮU tightens road vehicle pollution standards ahead of electric switch This would also distract investments from those made into the production of electric vehicles, which would instead need to go into combustion engine technology to fulfil the tighter emissions standards, Müller said. The proposed Euro 7 standards would see the lowest level of emissions of pollutants like nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter foreseen in the previous set of rules made mandatory as of July 2025, a timeline which VDA has argued would not be possible to meet. “Other regions, the US, for example, unleash, we restrict,” she said, citing a stricter classification of the health risks of lithium, which would “curb battery cell production”, and proposed new norms for non-CO2 emissions of cars as examples. She added that political decisions should not determine “who prevails how and when”.Ī “thought-through industrial policy” would not only ask “what is our objective?” but also “what do we need for that, and how can we reach that goal?” she said, adding that Brussels would often only do the first part. ![]() “I call for an industrial policy that unleashes, not a policy that makes decisions for companies,” Müller said at the yearly beginning-of-year press conference of the German automotive association VDA on Wednesday (11 January). The head of the German car industry association, Hildegard Müller, has criticised the EU for making vehicle production more expensive by political means, which in her view is undermining the bloc’s proclaimed industrial policy objectives.Īs concerns about industrial exodus have sparked debate in Brussels and Berlin on how to secure industrial production in Europe, the association of German carmakers has criticised the announced industrial policy for being “not yet in line with the needs of the industry”. ![]()
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