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Dunkirk embodies France's industrial revival: a strategic region where decarbonisation, reindustrialisation and public-private investment come together. This report by the Institut Montaigne identifies the conditions that have enabled this momentum and proposes 10 concrete recommendations to sustainably strengthen national and European industrial ambition.
The Chips Diplomacy Support Initiative (CHIPDIPLO) is an 18-month project led by the Institut Montaigne and co-funded by the European Commission. It aims to strengthen Europe's semiconductor strategy in the face of geopolitical tensions. Its objectives are to anticipate industrial risks, coordinate member states' policies and develop international partnerships. The consortium brings together experts, industrialists and researchers to analyze the challenges and provide recommendations to the EU. CHIPDIPLO supports the EU Chips Act and promotes Europe's attractiveness for innovation and investment.
Economic Security and Supply-Chain Resilience: Building the 2026 G7 Agenda
Energy will be at the heart of the new European Commission’s mandate. What are the obstacles to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050? This first note focuses on the evolution of the European energy–climate governance.
Amid geopolitical tensions and strategic vulnerabilities, the future of European semiconductors will be decided by 2031.
Two years after the publication of the Draghi Report on European competitiveness, around 30% of its 567 recommendations have been implemented. While the European Union is broadly on schedule, most of the proposed reforms still remain to be carried out. Faced with persistent economic, technological, and energy-related challenges, Europe must accelerate and deepen its transformation efforts to safeguard its competitiveness, sovereignty, and prosperity in an increasingly competitive global environment.
At the heart of technological rivalry, semiconductors are bringing the EU and Taiwan closer together, forming a cornerstone of AI value chains. Cross-investments and interdependence are intensifying despite persistent obstacles. The study calls for stronger cooperation: improving the industrial environment, boosting R&D, investment, talent mobility, and advancing a European strategy to secure supply chains.
Europe’s semiconductor supply chains face rising geopolitical risks, from Chinese pressure to U.S. export threats and East Asian conflict scenarios. This policy paper argues Europe must choose between autonomy and indispensability. Full autonomy is unrealistic; pure dependence is dangerous. The authors conclude that Europe’s best path is “Allied Autonomy, European Indispensability”: securing strategic choke points, embedding them in trusted partnerships, and strengthening resilience through targeted policy actions.
Europe stands at a critical turning point in its clean-energy transition. Its dependence on Chinese-controlled value chains for batteries, solar, wind and other core technologies threatens long-term competitiveness and industrial sovereignty. This paper argues that market access should require strong local value chains through EU-majority joint ventures and tailored local content rules. It identifies gaps in the EU framework and presents concrete recommendations and a 2026–2035 roadmap to secure Europe’s technological autonomy.
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