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Reiner Hoffmann Deputy General Secretary of ETUC Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 5 B-1210 Brussels rhoffman@etuc.org

Summer School of the ETUC Economic and Employment Committee Krakow, 08-10 July 2005 ETUC perspectives on industrial policies to implement the Lisbon agenda. Reiner Hoffmann Deputy General Secretary of ETUC Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 5 B-1210 Brussels rhoffman@etuc.org.

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Reiner Hoffmann Deputy General Secretary of ETUC Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 5 B-1210 Brussels rhoffman@etuc.org

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  1. Summer School of the ETUC Economic and Employment CommitteeKrakow, 08-10 July 2005ETUC perspectives on industrial policies to implement the Lisbon agenda Reiner Hoffmann Deputy General Secretary of ETUC Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 5 B-1210 Brussels rhoffman@etuc.org

  2. The basis for a European industrial policy • Maastricht Treaty (1992) provides a legal basis for a common industrial policy (Article 157 (130)) • Lisbon strategy March 2000 • Industrial policy in an enlarged Europe COM (2002) 714 fin. • Fostering structural change: an industrial policy for an enlarged Europe COM (2004) 274

  3. Industrial decline in absolute terms is characterised by • Consecutive reductions in employment • Output and productivity growth • Trade deficit “Such a phenomenon exist only in five out of 23 sectors in the EU” (Clothing, Shipbuilding, Textiles, Leather and footwear, Mineral oil refining, coke & nuclear fuel)

  4. Growth performance EU15, EUR12,NMS, USA, 2000-2004 Data source: Eurostat (2004d)

  5. Employment (growth - productivity), 1961-2003 Data source: Eurostat (2004d)

  6. EU-US labour productivity, 1995-2001 * includes real estate Data source: O’Mahony and van Ark (eds.),(2003): 29

  7. FDI in 2002 by economic sector

  8. EU FDI flows to China, 1995-2002 (USD millions) Data source: European Commission (2004f), Table 5.4

  9. FDI inflows, 1992-2003 (world = 100%) Data source: UNCTAD (2004)

  10. Investing in education, 2001 Data source: Eurostat (2004c)

  11. R & D investment as % of GDP, 2001 Data source: European Commission (2003e)

  12. Innovative Industrial Policy – the ETUC approach • The integrated approach • The sectoral approach • The coordinated approach • The stakeholder approach

  13. Innovative Industrial Policy – the integrated approach • Taking the phenomena of change at sectoral and regional level into account • Developing instruments to shape the process of structural change • Taking the horizontal and sectoral dimension into account

  14. Innovative Industrial Policy – the sectoral approach • Revisiting sectoral aspects • Ongoing screening exercise for specific sectors (ICT, textile, food industry, automotive etc.) • Linking the horizontal framework and individual sectoral aspects and needs

  15. Innovative Industrial Policy – the coordinated approach • Optimising synergies between different policies: Internal Market, employment, R&D, competition, trade, environment, education, structural funds • Coordinating more effectively different responsibilities inside the European Commission • Coordinating between ETUC and European Industry Federations

  16. Innovative Industrial Policy – the stakeholder approach • Social dialogue is a valuable instrument to handle industrial policy on interprofessional and sectoral level • The stakeholder approach towards consultation with the European and national institutions have to be developed further

  17. Reiner Hoffmann Deputy General Secretary European Trade Union Confederation Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 5 B-1210 Brussels rhoffman@etuc.org

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