Strategic autonomy: Europe’s investment moment
Discover how Europe’s quest for autonomy is creating new long-term opportunities across infrastructure, energy, and technology.
Discover how Europe’s quest for autonomy is creating new long-term opportunities across infrastructure, energy, and technology.
As the world fragments, Europe is mobilising — channelling substantial investment programmes into AI chips, clean energy, research and defence to reduce dependencies and strengthen competitiveness.
This shift is not short-term. It marks a structural transformation where resilience, independence, and sustainability are becoming the new drivers of growth.
Within this new environment, capital is being redirected toward the infrastructure, energy, defence, and critical materials that underpin economic and political resilience.
Our paper Geopolitical Fragmentation: Investing in a Multipolar World distils what this means for asset allocators:
Countries are prioritising resilience in infrastructure, energy, technology and security. Modernised energy grids, digital infrastructure, and robust logistics networks will underpin both economic stability and new investment opportunities.
Massive public funding in the U.S., EU, and Asia is driving the relocation of critical industries such as semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, and green technologies. This reshoring trend creates opportunities across among others automation, industrial equipment, and regional logistics
Europe, the U.S., Japan, and India are rolling out large-scale industrial policies (Horizon Europe, RePowerEU, Chips Acts, Inflation Reduction Act). For investors, this provides a transparent and lasting policy framework that supports key industries and strengthen long-term competitiveness.
Efforts to secure energy, materials, and technology supply chains have become central to economic policy, reinforcing the link between resilience and competitiveness in a multipolar world. Especially Europe is becoming increasingly aware of this, witness the massive investment programmes guiding the region to more strategic resilience and autonomy.
“Resilience is becoming the cornerstone of sustainable growth redefining how investors capture opportunity in a multipolar world”
Europe’s ambition for autonomy is reshaping its industrial and investment landscape. Through Candriam’s European Autonomy Strategy, investors can access companies driving this transformation — from energy transition to critical infrastructure and technological innovation.
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Our experts can help you navigate these long-term trends and identify the right thematic solutions for your portfolios.
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