Franco–German deal on cars and ‘Made in Europe’ is ‘hours or days’ away, says EU industry boss

PARIS — A deal between France and Germany to strengthen protections in the Industrial Accelerator Act in exchange for a loosening of combustion engine rules should be finalized “in the next few hours or in the next few days,” the bloc’s industry chief Stéphane Séjourné said Tuesday. Speaking at POLITICO’s Competitiveness Summit in Paris, Séjourné said he hoped the agreement would help “break the deadlock, particularly in the European Parliament” on the IAA. Séjourné’s comments come a day after French President Emmanuel Macron said a grand bargain with Germany was “imminent.