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By Euronews
Published on 06/10/2025 - 12:12 GMT+2
Key diary dates
Tuesday 7 October : The Commission volition contiguous the AI bundle and measures to code the effects of planetary overcapacity connected the EU alloy market. The MEPs volition ballot connected the revision of the visa suspension mechanism.
Wednesday 8 October : The MEPs statement Europe's automotive aboriginal and the prohibition connected the merchantability of combustion cars successful the EU.
Thursday 9 October : The MEPs volition ballot connected the question of censure connected the Commission.
In spotlight
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Companies and workers successful the European alloy assemblage are nether strain. International contention is fierce, vigor costs stay high, and the modulation to greener alloy accumulation is proving expensive.
After unveiling successful March an enactment program for the sector, the European Commission is present expected to travel up connected 7 October with caller measures aimed astatine addressing the interaction of planetary overcapacities reaching the EU market.
Global request remains weak, and excess of alloy accumulation are growing. OECD information talk for themselves : from 600 cardinal tonnes successful 2023, they are expected to emergence to 720 cardinal tonnes adjacent year.
In this context, China is being accused by its trading partners of not playing by the rules, flooding the European marketplace with heavy subsidised, low-cost steel.
Donald Trump wasn’t fooled: aft imposing 25% tariffs connected each alloy imports to the US mid-March, helium raised them to 50% successful June successful a determination aimed astatine countering inexpensive Chinese overcapacities.
But Europeans haven’t been spared either. Their exports to the US are present heavy taxed and determination is simply a large hazard that planetary alloy primitively destined for the US marketplace volition beryllium redirected to Europe.
In July, Washington and Brussels reached a commercialized statement covering each EU products, which are present taxable to a 15% US tariff — with the notable objection of aluminium and steel, which stay the mediocre relations of the deal, inactive facing 50% US tariffs.
New negotiations with Washington are expected — but not earlier the Commission shows its hand, with measures to shield the EU marketplace from excessive imports from 3rd countries.
A safeguard strategy has been successful spot since 2019 to support the European market, but it is acceptable to expire successful 2026.
A caller extortion mechanics is expected to beryllium unveiled connected Tuesday.
Policy newsmakers
Ursula von der Leyen’s aboriginal astatine risk
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, volition look two antithetic motions of censure this week, presented by far-right and far-left governmental groups.
The Left and Patriots for Europe groups successful the European Parliament person secured the indispensable signatures for the enclosure to ballot connected von der Leyen’s continuation arsenic caput of the Commission.
This is not the archetypal clip Ursula von der Leyen has seen her presumption questioned by the Parliament. Earlier this year, she survived different ballot of nary confidence, with 175 MEPs voting successful favour of the question of censure, 360 against, and 18 abstentions. For a question to succeed, it has to unafraid a two-thirds bulk of the votes cast, representing a bulk of the constituent members the parliament.
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