It was just past 11 on a freezing December morning on the outskirts of Brussels, but already workers at the city’s Audi factory were cracking open frosty cans of beer. They had just finished a long night shift – not on one of the production lines at a plant that has produced 8 million cars since 1949, according to a huge sign on its exterior wall – but on a picket line outside. Pallets and old furniture were added to roaring fires in the middle of a road. Hand-painted signs raged, in French, agaRead More
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