For US President Joe Biden, the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in the summer of 2022 was an unexpected success. In Europe, on the other hand, some IRA regulations are viewed with concern. Germany’s Minister for Economic Affairs Habeck and France’s Economy Minister Le Maire are now working on ways out of the dispute with their US counterparts. They are offering closer cooperation on green tech and supply chains. In this way, a „green bridge across the Atlantic“ is to be built. Bernhard Pötter reports from Washington.