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Strategic Industrial Scale-Up: Europe’s Cleantech Failure as a Warning for Defence Tech
What is the central argument of “Strategic Industrial Scale-Up”, and why does it matter for European defence and dual-use markets?
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Original DFM publication · DFM Analysis report · 2025-07-21
In recent years, the European Union has positioned itself as a climate leader through ambitious political initiatives such as the European Green Deal. However, these ambitions have not translated into industrial power. While Europe crafted frameworks and targets, China built infrastructure, secured critical minerals, and deployed subsidies to scale its cleantech sectors.
Today, China controls key value chains in solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles, and rare earths—domains explicitly identified by the EU as central to the green transition. Beijing is now advancing nuclear power and challenging Europe’s leadership in wind energy.
This analysis answers: What is the central argument of “Strategic Industrial Scale-Up”, and why does it matter for European defence and dual-use markets? What does this mean for European defence funding, procurement and investment decisions? How mature and defensible is the position described in “Strategic Industrial Scale-Up”? Which European actors, programmes and funding instruments are most exposed?
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- Today, China controls key value chains in solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles, and rare earths—domains explicitly identified by the EU as central to the green transition.
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What is Strategic Industrial Scale-Up: Europe’s Cleantech Failure as a Warning for Defence Tech?
However, these ambitions have not translated into industrial power.
Why does Strategic Industrial Scale-Up: Europe’s Cleantech Failure as a Warning for Defence Tech matter for European defence?
Beijing is now advancing nuclear power and challenging Europe’s leadership in wind energy.
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