In its conclusions of 23 October 2025, the European Council stated that enhancing the Union’s competitiveness, bolstering its resilience and advancing the green transition are mutually reinforcing objectives that must be pursued together, and called for an urgent stepping up of efforts to secure the supply of affordable and clean energy and build a genuine Energy Union before 2030, including by leveraging the new Energy Union Task Force, as well as for accelerating work aimed at lowering energy prices and supporting sustainable energy production domestically in the Union. With a view to ensuring a cost-effective, fair and just, pragmatic and socially balanced transition towards climate neutrality, taking into account different national circumstances, both private and public sector investment, including through Union funding, will be a key enabler for the clean transition, for example by supporting and accelerating the deployment and commercialisation of innovative technologies across Member States, by supporting access to industrial renewal and decarbonisation, clean tech manufacturing and the modernisation of energy systems, and by providing affordable solutions across the economy and for citizens throughout the Union. The Clean Industrial Deal, launched in the Commission’s communication of 26 February 2025 entitled The Clean Industrial Deal: A joint roadmap for competitiveness and decarbonisation, is putting the conditions in place for a successful transition, focusing on both decarbonisation and industrial renewal, which will contribute to boosting demand for made in Europe, and support mechanisms for European industry, including an industrial decarbonisation bank and the new simplified State aid framework.
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