In case you missed it, this was one of the proposals @nilsredeker.bsky.social @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social and I made how to Europeanise EV industrial policy.
Most European economists I heard from agreed with this as a way forward - we seem to have balanced red lines.
www.cer.eu/publications...
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How buy-European rules can help save Europe's car industry
Europe's car industry faces an acute demand shock from Chinese overcapacity & US tariffs. Instead of bailouts & regulatory rollbacks, member-states should co-ordinate buy-European EV subsidie...
@sandertordoir.bsky.socialBerlin could have literally copied the French scheme, including the carbon measuring methodology and list of eligible EVs (cutting Chinese cars out from further subsidy, EU and allied cars in).
Easy implementation - a single phone call to Tresor in Paris (I did it myself). Alas.
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