Press The European industry is a priority in the recovery plan
During a debate, MEP Maria da Graça CARVALHO (EPP, PT) talked about the importance of investing in the industrial sector, Jornal de Negócios reports. "This European Commission and this European Parliament have put the industrial strategy back on the political agenda, which is very important and was already so on 10 and 11 March, just before the Covid-19 confinement of almost the whole of Europe, the European Commission made a series of documents with a European strategy for industry, for data, which is also mainly industry oriented, a strategy for SMEs", stated the MEP. The great priorities are the liquidity of the companies and jobs. The MEP also stated that the European Parliament hopes that the EU budget increases to 2% of the EU GDP in order to effectively combat the consequences of the pandemic.