Productive two days for the Cerame-Unie Board of Presidents for its spring meeting in Brussels held on 29-30 April: Election of Heimo Scheuch as incoming President in 2025, followed by important and greatly appreciated high-level meetings with the European Commission, including DG CLIMA’s Director General Kurt Vandenberghe, DG ENER’s Deputy DG Mechthild Wörsdörfer, EVP Dombrovskis’s Deputy Head of Cabinet Žaneta Vegnere, Member of the Cabinet of Mr. Wopke Hoekstra, Daniel Mes, and officials from DG GROW, DG RTD and DG TRADE to discuss the Ceramic Manifesto for the EU’s institutional 2024-2029 mandate, and more particularly on competitiveness, access to green energy at a competitive price, decarbonisation, CBAM, support for Research & Innovation and the Trade policy required to ensure EU manufacturing remains competitive in the current context. (IF)
