[varispeed]

The thing is companies in the EU can't use slave workers and there is no access to cheap resources that are mined without regulations and so on. But, big corporations are allowed to sidestep that by manufacturing in countries that don't care about that and so having huge competitive advantage over potential European manufacturers.

For some reason the EU is not seeking level playing field with China.

Opening tax payer funding for corporations willing to manufacture in the EU is an open season for corruption and display of hypocrisy.

[coldtea]

>The thing is companies in the EU can't use slave workers and there is no access to cheap resources that are mined without regulations and so on

Sure they can. In the 1940s they did it to several million people (a large part Jews). Up until the mid-20th century they stole resources and took advantage of human capital directly in occupied lands ("colonies"). Now they do it through outsourcing work to sweatshops, child mines, and such, in Asia, Africa, and so on. They also do whatever they can to keep those "unregulated mines" and cheap resources flowing, by by the traditional way of meddling in their ex-colonies, toppling governments, and so on.