Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/334162 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 2145
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
Trade conflicts, geopolitical tensions, digital disruption, and the climate crisis pose major challenges for the European Union (EU) and its member states. As called for in the Draghi Report, industrial policy measures can increase competitiveness, strengthen resilience, and facilitate the twin transformation. This article explores ways in which competition policy can be realigned to better accommodate industrial policy objectives. Using German competition law as a reference point, it presents options with which legislatures and competition authorities can respond to current challenges, reconcile conflicting objectives, and adapt the decision-making framework. It then considers elements of a competition-oriented industrial policy, understood as an evidence-based, targeted approach in which competition serves both as a guiding principle and as a control variable.
Subjects: 
industrial policy
protection of competition
competition
regulation
competition policy
competitiveness
internal market
JEL: 
L40
L50
L52
K21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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