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How Buy-European Rules Can Help Save Europe’s Car Industry

Car manufacturing was the pinnacle of 20th-century industrialisation. Even today, the industry remains one of Europe’s most important sectors, if not the most important.

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Author Lucas Guttenberg, Nils Redeker, Sander Tordoir

23. October 2025

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Daniela Schwarzer

Daniela Schwarzer has been a member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung Executive Board since May 2023. She is also an honorary professor of political science at Freie Universität Berlin and a senior fellow a...

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Lucas Guttenberg

Lucas Guttenberg heads our Europe programme as its Director. His own research focuses on the EU budget, EU economic and fiscal policy coordination, Germany's role in the EU and the Franco-German relat...

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Malte Zabel

Malte Zabel is an EU expert and Director of the Europe’s Future Program at the Bertelsmann Stiftung. In this role, he leads the program’s cross-cutting outreach initiatives and oversees projects aimed...

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