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Economic issues:

- Maintaining an ambitious trade negotiation agenda that can

contribute to building resilience and diversification of supply chains,
thereby limiting Europe’s exposure and dependency on a small number
of potentially risky suppliers.

- Increasing the resilience of EU supply chains through fostering
investment in strategic sectors in the EU, stockpiling critical
productions and devices and diversifying the supply sources of critical
raw materials.

- Investing further in the completion of the internal market,
creating a level-playing field to make it more attractive to produce and
buy these items in the European Union.

- Adopting a strategy to be more autonomous in its energy
production. A European body should integrate the existing European
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energy agencies and should coordinate the development of renewable
energies and promote knowledge sharing;

- Pursuing common purchases of imported energy and sustainable
energy partnerships in order to reduce European energy import
dependencies, specifically in the area of gas and oil and developing EU
domestic sources of energy.

- Actively supporting public transport and energy efficiency
projects, a pan-European high-speed rail and freight network, the
expansion of clean and renewable energy provision (in particular in
solar and wind) and alternative technologies (such as hydrogen or

waste-to-energy).

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organisations-and-initiatives_en

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