An innovative, green, and competitive domestic EU steel industry is essential to meet Europe’s Green Deal ambitions, to ensure Europe’s economic resilience as well as the EU’s aims for an open strategic autonomy. It is also a major generator of jobs, providing over 300,000 direct jobs plus 2.3 million indirect jobs in Europe, being the foundation of other key industrial value chains. It is also a leading sector in the green transition, with the European steel industry engaging and progressing on decarbonisation, with companies launching a number of breakthrough emissions reduction projects which has not been matched in other regions of the world. 

An urgent Action Plan with a holistic set of EU policy measures is required to ensure an internationally competitive and climate-neutral steel production with quality jobs in Europe for today and years to come. We call for the establishment of a strategic dialogue for the steel industry to agree on immediate short-term measures. Europe needs steel and steel needs Europe!

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'A European Steel Action Plan'