Policy Brief
Clean trade and investment partnerships (CTIPs) for enhancing EU competitiveness, resilience, and decarbonisation
08 December 2025

Authors: CORNILLIE, Jan; DELBEKE, Jos; TAGLIAPIETRA, Simone

In a rapidly changing geopolitical context, Europe faces limited energy resources, constrained renewable potential, and critical-rawmaterial dependencies. Clean Trade and Investment Partnerships (CTIPs) can become a central pillar of Europe’s competitiveness agenda, reducing costs, enhancing resilience, and supporting global decarbonisation. CTIPs should be designed around five principles: (i) keeping the Clean Industrial Deal open to global comparative advantages; (ii) prioritising partners and sectors; (iii) creating lead markets based on “Made with Europe,” not “Made in Europe”; (iv) mobilising private investment; and (v) aligning trade, climate, energy, industrial, development and diplomatic instruments.
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