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If the Green Deal is to succeed without the EU becoming increasingly dependent on third parties, it urgently needs to reform its state aid law, writes Michael Niese, managing director of the Wirtschaftsvereinigung Metalle, in his guest article.
By Redaktion Table
A contradiction is emerging between two green pet projects. The new government wants to expand solar energy on the one hand and enforce human rights in global supply chains on the other. But the solar supply chain is dominated by China. And forced labor appears to be occurring in Xinjiang in the production of the raw material for solar panels. Trade sanctions will hardly solve the problem.
By Nico Beckert