Based on an analysis of the barriers and challenges facing the implementation of the Clean Industrial Deal and the regulation on critical raw materials (CRMA), the discussion will focus on the search for solutions, participants will be invited to take the floor to address the following questions:

• After the Competitiveness Compass and the Clean Industrial Deal, what policy tools could further reinforce electrification of end uses and maximise strategic benefits of electrification for competitiveness and flexibility?
• After the Northvolt collapse, amidst difficulties in leveling the playing field, technological uncertainties, China predominance, and based on the CRMA and Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), which tools can be realistically mobilized to secure clean tech and CRM value chains in the short-middle term?
• How could the EU become more strategic and agile in ramping up financing and funding for electrification of uses and resilient value chains?

Program

12:00 - 12:30 : Welcome buffet

12:30 - 14:00: Round table

kick-off remarks by Diego Pavia, CEO of EITInnoEnergy and Jean-Christophe Laloux, Director general at the European Investment Bank, Marc-antoine Eyl-Mazzega, Director of the Center for Energy & Climate of Ifri, Diana-Paula Gherasim, research fellow, Cédric Philibert, associate research fellow at Ifri, followed by a discussion with participants, public and private stakeholders of the European energy sector.

14:00 - 14:30: Coffee

The event will be held under the Chatham House rule .