A good insight on the feasibility of the eurostack [at the time of writing].

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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Many of the basic components will be hard to source from a European factory. Things like nuts and bolts.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    True. Most of the manufacturing seems to be mid - high value add manufacturing. (Ie washing machines, ventilation, electrical, etc)

    Literal commodity manufactured parts will be more global.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    If we are looking at this from the angle of geopolitical dependency rather than ideological purity it's quite far down the list to self-manufacture products that are available widely from several countries with varied political and economic ties.

    The point is to diffuse the economic ties enough that no actor would be individually holding a leash like US currently is. In some products this requires local capability, but hardly all of them, the point is to make EU a sovereign actor at the world stage, not prepare for an "EU against the World" -war where EU detaches itself from the global community.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I don't know about factory, but Würth as a company can deliver all your nuts and bolts and crapload of other things from their own manufacturing.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Yeah, I intentionally said "European factory" and not "European company". A lot of European companies have factories outside of the EU, and a lot of companies also make deals about rebranding the products from others that they sell.

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