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# Think tanks urge EU wide buy European rules to save Europe's car industry
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-10-23-cer-delors-buy-european-car-policy-brief/
- Published: 2025-10-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T12:02:55.000Z
- Description: CER's Sander Tordoir, the Jacques Delors Centre's Nils Redeker and Bertelsmann Stiftung's Lucas Guttenberg argue EU states should harmonise EV subsidies to cover only cars built in Europe, extending France's eco-bonus model.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, Industry, investment and R&D, #news, #verified, #opinion, #editor-read

Verified Opinion Editor-read [Centre for European Reform policy brief, 23 October 2025](https://www.cer.eu/publications/archive/policy-brief/2025/how-buy-european-rules-can-help-save-europes-car-industry?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not establish that any EU state or institution has adopted or agreed to harmonise EV subsidy eligibility rules.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-13\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)