"Big Auto" taking everyone by surprise with a massive battery manufacturing investment in Belgium? Now that would be a nicely utopian twist on the trope of hist

"Big Auto" taking everyone by surprise with a massive battery manufacturing investment in Belgium? Now that would be a nicely utopian twist on the trope of history repeating. One could hardly make up a better symbol for what the EU is about, make profit not war. And yes, I completely made up that idea of German cars on Belgian batteries, just for the sake of historical analogy. But then I googled a bit and it turns out that Belgium, per capita, already has the biggest chemical industry worldwide. It might actually be a perfect match.