Members of the Cleantech Friendship Group have sent a joint letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy Stéphane Séjourné, urging the Commission to place Made in Europe cleantech at the centre of Europe’s renewed industrial strategy.

In the letter, MEPs stress that Europe is at a decisive moment for energy security, industrial competitiveness and climate ambition. They underline that Europe’s ability to develop, manufacture and scale clean technologies domestically will be critical to ensuring long-term prosperity, resilience and strategic autonomy.

The signatories highlight the need for targeted and strategic public funding focused on cleantech value chains of clear strategic importance, including clean energy components, advanced manufacturing inputs and cybersecurity-related infrastructure. They emphasise that the Made in Europe principle should act as a tool of strategic precision, strengthening European value chains while keeping the EU open to global cooperation.

The letter also calls for a level playing field, including the alignment of Foreign Direct Investment with Europe’s strategic interests, to protect critical parts of the cleantech value chain from unfair competition and excessive external dependencies.

Concluding, the MEPs urge the Commission to move from vision to execution by accelerating deployment, simplifying permitting and aligning EU funding instruments with strategic cleantech value chains, ensuring that Europe leads not only in deploying clean technologies, but also in producing them.

Read the full letter for more.

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