Science Business: European elections: industry giants deliver energy wishlist for the new Commission
As Europe heads to the polls, future energy policy is weighing heavy on the minds of the continent’s manufacturers.
Nowhere is the failure of the EU to create a true common market more evident, according to executives at the 12th European Business Summit, than in energy.
“We have to acknowledge that producing metals is very energy-intensive – this is a problem,” said Oliver Bell, president of Eurometaux, the European umbrella association for the non-ferrous metal industry. “Europe needs good materials for our innovations. Metals [are] the starting point in the industrial value chain. It’s the element that’s made Europe strong, coming through the crisis,” Bell told delegates at the meeting in Brussels last week.
MORE