EU industrial strategy nominee pledges push to protect steel sector

The European Union must develop a new plan to ensure the survival of its steel industry in the face of high energy prices and overproduction by China, the nominee to be the bloc’s industrial strategy chief told European lawmakers on Tuesday. Stéphane Séjourné, a former French foreign minister tapped earlier this year by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to be the Commission’s executive vice president for prosperity and industrial strategy, took questions about the future of the EU’s...