The European automotive industry is slipping deeper into crisis. While this decline has external drivers — US tariffs and Chinese overcapacities — it is also “made in Europe” in many ways. Can new policy measures save the industry?
This is the core question Béla Galgóczi, senior researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), addresses in a new comprehensive article published in The Green European Journal — Europe’s leading political ecology magazine.
Béla, who collaborates with us also on the EcoMobility Transition research project focused on automotive transformation and adaptation of Central Europe, explains that even though electric car (EV) sales have gained momentum since 2020, there are constantly ups and downs in the transition process, and much uncertainty.
The central question is whether EU manufacturers can maintain their core competence and market share in the new EV era — and what role industrial and social policy must play.
The EcoMobility Transition project, supported by EUKI — European Climate Initiative, and led by CELSI in cooperation with ETUI, NELA — Next Economy Lab, and Instytut Spraw Publicznych, examines fair and sustainable transition in Central and Eastern European regions where the automotive industry plays a key role.
Alongside Béla Galgóczi’s EU-level analysis, the project has produced research reports on the automotive transition in V4 countries.
🔗 Read the full article in The Green European Journal: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/a-car-crash-made-in-europe-and-how-to-fix-it/
🔗 EcoMobility Transition project research reports from V4 countries: https://ecomobility-transition.celsi.sk/outcomes/
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