The European Commission and Industrial Policy in an Age of Austerity

Abstract

The European Commission is deeply committed to improving the ‘competitivity’ of numerous industries in Europe while being consistently hamstrung by limits upon its budgets and policies and those of the member states. Given this constant tension between governmental ambition and modesty, how have different parts of the Commission devised their respective approaches to accompanying or intervening in ‘their’ respective industries? What common features and differences mark these approaches? What are their underlying causes? This panel will provide answers to these questions using findings from a recently completed research project on the EU’s government of industries.

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