A large proportion of the state aid approved in recent years has not flowed into strategically important sectors. This is shown in a new report by the Jacques Delors Centre. The think tank examined 280,000 cases of state aid between 2019 and 2024 and classified them using an AI model. The result: „Only 12% of subsidies went to strategic sectors such as battery production, clean hydrogen, semiconductors, software development and biotech,“ the report states.