Figure 2 - Expectations for more EU action than at present: percentage points difference between 2016 and 2018

The overall increase in support for more EU involvement in industrial policy is 7 percentage points (see Figure 2). The trend of increase is almost universal across the EU, with only two Member States demonstrating a reverse trend of a marginal magnitude – Italy with a decrease of two percentage points and Estonia with a decrease of one percentage point. The most prominent increases are registered in Belgium, Germany (increase of 15 percentage points in both) and Poland (increase of 14 percentage points).