“at the expense of economic and social sustainability, [but] defending and promoting European production and safeguarding tens of thousands of jobs.”

I mean, she’s right in general that the EU might not be taking care of the workers of the affected industries. But that doesn’t mean the way to take care of them is to halt the transition of the worst offending sectors. There’s no reason not to super subsidize the auto sector transition to make EVs in the EU other than ideology. The transition doesn’t mean dependence on Chinese EVs and jobless or downskilled auto workers.