Editorial Board

‘Made in Europe’ Won’t Make Europe Competitive

Cute, but can it compete?

Photographer: Thibaut Durand/AFP/Getty Images

Throughout Europe, companies are facing a quandary: How can they afford immense investments in decarbonization when a combination of now-surging energy prices, Chinese overproduction and US tariffs threatens to undermine their existing businesses?

The European Union’s leaders reasonably want to offer them some help. They should be careful, though, not to descend into self-defeating protectionism.