About this episode
The episode discusses the inevitable collapse of Europe's automobile industry and its implications for the continent's future.
The point being of today’s article is… …that the collapse of Europe’s automobile industry is unavoidable, and the reason reaches far deeper than technology or global competition. It exposes a continent whose political design — built to prevent war — now makes meaningful innovation impossible. Defense spending, American protection, and fear of Russia temporarily mask this weakness, but if Russia collapses in the coming years, Europe will lose the last external force that unites it. Unless a crisis forces reinvention, Europe will slowly become what I wrote about earlier: a beautiful, historical place to enjoy life, preserved more as a memory than as a driver of the future. The Situation at Hand Arjen Lubach’s segment last week made something visible that has been happening for years: Europe is no longer competing in the global automobile market. We are losing. No — we have already lost. What was once our industrial backbone is now dissolving in slow motion. Europe shaped the 20th-century car. Germany built the engineering DNA. France and Italy gave it elegance. Scandinavia added safety. The supply chains stretched across the continent like an industrial nervous system. And then, in…
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Host: Roel Smelt
Topics covered
- automobile industry
- innovation
- political design
- global competition
- European economy
Keywords
- automobile collapse
- Europe
- innovation
- global competition
- EV empire
- political design
- Arjen Lubach
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Europe, China, United States
Places: Germany, France, Italy, Scandinavia
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