We dont need "total autonomy" when we have friends that already produce chips, for example.

Rather, invest in defense and protect trade with Taiwan.

We can do what we are best at and produce lithography equipment at ASML and the Taiwanese at TSMC produce the chips with it and send them back to us.

Europe as a project is over, it's all downhill from here. You can't regulate yourself into economic growth, and there is nothing else the Eurocrats care to do. There is still lots of fat in the land that they can leech off before Europe kicks the bucket.

There are companies like infineon and elmos in germany (and i think a handful more). So it is happening, just not (yet) with consumer products

Europe has ARM, AMD and ASML, but everything is produced elsewhere. Time to build giant automated chip fabs.