If we want things to be ‘Made in Europe’ again, we need to be realistic about how grimy and grey our centres of commerce once were If we want things to be ‘Made in Europe’ again, we need to be realistic about how grimy and grey our centres of commerce once were “B itterfeld, Bitterfeld, where dirt falls from the sky,” went a popular saying. Located in the intensely industrialised Chemical Triangle of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), in the 1980s Bitterfeld became known as the dirtiest town