Written question – Energy-intensive industries – E-002513/2025

Question for written answer  E-002513/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Harald Vilimsky (PfE), Georg Mayer (PfE)

A debate on energy-intensive industries took place during the plenary sitting on 2 April 2025.

• 1.How does the Commission view the fact that the products of energy-intensive industries in the EU are increasingly being replaced by imports from third countries that produce under completely different environmental and social standards, while at the same time claims are made that these industries are promoted in the EU, and is the Commission aware of the political and economic contradiction this represents?
• 2.Why does the Commission refuse to recognise that the current energy crisis and the decline in the competitiveness of EU industry are mainly due to homegrown, misguided political decisions, instead of continuing to attribute the crisis to external factors?
• 3.Does the Commission plan to evaluate, in the context of the Green Deal, whether the climate targets are even compatible with a competitive industrial policy, or is it assumed that a significant loss of industrial added value will simply be accepted?

Submitted: 23.6.2025