>Western Europe is in real trouble after years of policy push for "Services Based" economies I'm not sure where this narrative comes from because Western Europ

>Western Europe is in real trouble after years of policy push for "Services Based" economies I'm not sure where this narrative comes from because Western Europe is still industrialized, in particular compared to the US[1]. the industrial belt roughly from the UK midlands through northern France, Benelux, Switzerland, the Rhine-Ruhr area and South West Germany, Northern Italy and to some extent Spain is one of the most productive industrial regions in the world. [2] [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_sector_composition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_secto... [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Banana