(3) Increase and better coordinate EU and national spending
(4) Maximize the utility of state aid support through accompanying policies

Key recommendations:
(1) Develop a more evidence-based approach through improve state aid reporting and evaluation.
(2) Create a comprehensive, coherent and agile EU state aid framework geared towards common objectives

Check out our full paper with plenty of visualized data and analysis here:
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Ideally, this EU approach to state aid would include common funding mechanisms allowing the Union to co-finance IPCEIs alongside national governments. National contributions could then benefit from the exemption for the co-financing of EU-funded programs under the new SGP.

Second, we underscore the need to strengthen the IPCEI instrument, with an enhanced role for the European Commission in ensuring that projects are selected based on merit rather than Member States’ fiscal capacity to provide subsidies.

First, we advocate for phasing out temporary crisis frameworks by the end of 2025. Instead, the EU should prioritize consolidating permanent state aid instruments, such as GBER aid and IPCEIs, to balance policy flexibility and pan-European strategic coordination.

Our analysis reveals significant cross-country variation in both the levels and composition of national state aid across these three domains. To avoid a subsidy race between Member States, we propose several policy solutions.

We provide an in-depth analysis of three key domains of the EU state aid regime: the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER), Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs), and the Temporary Frameworks introduced to respond to recent crises.

In a study written last autumn for the @ifri.bsky.social (in collaboration with the @delorsinstitute.bsky.social) I analysed the major differences in 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 public finances.
You can find a link to the paper here:

Only a more transparent EU industrial policy can ensure that the most innovative and promising projects are selected across Europe to achieve common objectives. 4/4

My ongoing work on the undertakings supported by IPCEIs highlights a lack of detailed and timely available data. 3/4