Europe helped teach China to make cars. Now the tables are turning

Press quote (Financial Times)
17 April 2025

“It’s a change in the sense that it welcomes investment from abroad in a sector that has been one of the prides of European industrial development,” says Elisabetta Cornago, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform think-tank.

“It’s also an acknowledgment that there is a gap between the European homegrown knowhow and what is available externally.”