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Europe’s industrial rebuild enters its decisive phase
Manufacturers are investing while production continues. The next round of decisions will determine where batteries, chips, and clean-energy equipment are made.
Top stories
Grid investors confront the missing link in Europe’s energy plans
Energy · 7 min
The contest for networks and storage
Investors rediscover the appeal of a boring portfolio
Markets · 5 min
The portfolio without fads
Office conversions bring housing back into the heart of the city
Real estate · 6 min
How housing returns to the city
The companies protecting quiet time from the meeting calendar
Work & careers · 4 min
Why productivity needs quiet
The Big Read: A new industrial atlas
Where are batteries, chips, heat pumps, and data centres being built? The Ledger tracks 180 investment projects to show which regions benefit—and where grids, land, or skilled workers are missing.
The map connects announced billions with visible building progress. A groundbreaking ceremony is not a factory.
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Leadership without the stage
Opinion
The era of painless industrial policy is over
Elara Venn
Why governments must choose which risks to carry
A city should treat its empty offices as raw material
Mira Solven
The case for conversion before expansion
Quiet is infrastructure, not an employee benefit
Ivo Maren
How organisations can protect serious work