Europe’s solar panel manufacturing industry has urged the European Union to step in with emergency measures to avoid local firms shutting down under price pressure from Chinese imports. „Over the next 4-8 weeks, major EU PV module producers and their European suppliers are poised to shut down manufacturing lines unless substantial emergency measures are promptly implemented,“ states the letter from the industry association the European Solar Manufacturing Council (ESMC) to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Without rapid help, the EU risked losing more than half of its operational solar photovoltaic module manufacturing capacity within weeks. The letter is available to Reuters.