UK business and trade secretary Peter Kyle said Labour’s industrial strategy will be maintained through the imminent leadership transition. Andy Burnham, the most likely successor to Starmer, has committed to support the policy and has already benefited from the decade-long industrial growth plan in Greater Manchester. Kyle said businesses can be confident the strategy’s basic framework will not change, but added he has held private discussions with Burnham and would not speak for him; Burnham s

South Korea's Lee on Monday instructed officials to rapidly advance last week's major chip and AI projects, warning that delays in permitting, land acquisition or securing power and water could undermine the country's push to lead advanced industries. He ordered a shift from sequential to parallel processing of approvals, demanded shorter environmental assessments and other permit timelines, and required pre-provisioning of electricity and water infrastructure, saying power will be especially critical for chip plants. Lee cited the Yongin industrial park—which took six years from site confirmation to groundbreaking—as a relative speed benchmark and told officials to resolve firms' concerns about baseload supply despite expanding renewable capacity.

根據最新美歐貿易協議，歐盟承諾未來三年採購7500億美元美國能源產品，其中液化天然氣（LNG）將佔大部分。然而，由於亞洲天然氣價格更高，美國出口商更願意將LNG銷往亞洲，導致歐洲6月採購美國LNG降至兩年來最低。此外，受去年冬季庫存消耗、中東局勢及供應擾動影響，歐盟天然氣庫存處於近15年來同期低位，今冬能源供應壓力依然突出。隨着2027年俄LNG進口禁令生效，美國未來或將佔歐盟LNG進口的80%。與此同時，歐盟又限制北海、北極等油氣資源開發，本土增產空間有限，使能源供應更加依賴進口。歐盟雖然通過制裁俄羅斯試圖降低對俄能源依賴，卻可能逐步轉向依賴美國。