Europe.Table – Edition 1120

Calls for ‘Buy European’ criteria in MFF talks + Lecornu secures budget victory + critical raw materials remain a bottleneck

• MFF: France pushes to anchor European preference criteria
• France’s national budget: Lecornu emerges as an increasingly independent prime minister
• Raw materials: Auditors warn of bottlenecks for the energy transition
• Digital Omnibus: Data protection emerges as fault line among member states
• Chinese currency: Beijing shows no appetite for a stronger renminbi
• Must Reads: Séjourné seeks to tie EU funding for companies to “Made in Europe” requirements
• Time.Table: Russia’s strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure
• Documents: German government’s position paper on ‘Buy European’ clauses in MFF
• Opinion: Why Spain is taking a new approach to immigration – and what the rest of Europe can learn from it