Understanding Europe’s new roadmap for competitiveness

Set against a backdrop of rising global power competition, energy shocks and lagging productivity, A Competitiveness Compass for the EU outlines a five-year agenda (2025–2030) to reinforce Europe's technological leadership, industrial resilience and investment attractiveness.

Luxinnovation’s Policy Watch Briefing helps Luxembourg stakeholders understand and anticipate the implications of major EU policy developments.

A compass to guide Europe’s industrial and innovation ambitions

The Competitiveness Compass is structured around four major pillars:

• Innovation-led productivity, with targeted support for AI, semiconductors, biotech, quantum and advanced materials
• Industrial decarbonisation, backed by regulatory and financial frameworks such as the Clean Industrial Deal and upcoming Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act
• Strategic autonomy and economic security, including joint raw materials procurement, critical medicines strategies and a new defence industrial policy
• Horizontal enablers, such as streamlined regulation, enhanced skills mobility and coordinated EU/national investments

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Why the Competitiveness Compass matters for Luxembourg

This strategy is an opportunity for Luxembourg’s industry, R&D players and public stakeholders to align with high-impact EU priorities. The focus on innovation, cleantech, the circular economy and resilient supply chains mirrors the goals of Luxembourg’s own economic development agenda.