“It’s Bullshit”: The Delusion of Europe’s Tariff War and the New Regulatory Wall

From Trains to Tech: How Europe Weaponised Compliance to Mask Its Industrial Inertia

In 2025, while I was working in London, my colleagues produced a documentary on the Chinese electric vehicle industry that caused quite a stir in European auto circles. During a candid interview in Stuttgart, Stefan Reindl, director of the Institute for Automotive Management (IFA), was asked a pointed question: Would tariffs help European legacy carmake…