The EU’s new industrial strategy and global disorder

By Scott Lavery

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2026

Overview

Lavery discusses internal political tensions within EU industrial policy formation, in particular those exposed by its approach to semiconductors. He argues that the EU’s strategic positioning within the global economy is creating market distortions and deepening existing economic divides between its export core and southern and eastern peripheries, undermining the sustainability of this policy shift.

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