How can the EU respond to companies moving their production elsewhere?
MEPs are calling on the European Parliament to take action against industrial relocations after the BSH Domestic Appliances group announced the closure of a 650-employee factory in Spain.
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MEPs are calling on the European Parliament to take action against industrial relocations after the BSH Domestic Appliances group announced the closure of a 650-employee factory in Spain.
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/06/12/how-can-europe-respond-to-companies-moving-their-production-elsewhere
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00:00German group BSH Appliances, which owns the Siemens and Bosch brands, has announced the planned closure of a plant in Spain.
00:13More than 650 jobs are likely to be lost, with production potentially being relocated to Poland or Turkey.
00:21And this is not an isolated case. Relocations are also underway at Audi, Volkswagen and ArcelorMittal.
00:29Some MEPs would therefore like the European Parliament to take action to combat relocation and support the reindustrialization of Europe.
00:38We have political instability, we have prices of energy that are high, there is economic uncertainty.
00:47There is the trump war of Donald Trump. We have, in this case, a lack of strategic autonomy.
00:56These companies are looking for lower labor costs. They are looking for access to prime materials.
01:05Martinez recommends simplifying the regulatory and tax framework to support production, innovation and competitiveness in Europe.
01:14Another Spanish MEP from the radical left calls for an update of the 25-year-old European directive on collective redundancies.
01:24We cannot face a competition between states, depending on the salary levels that there are in a member or another.
01:35Therefore, we must reform the directive of collective requests and prevent the labor dumping
01:42from all workers and workers in Europe.
01:46Between 2018 and 2020, 72% of French companies that relocated did so to other parts of Europe, according to the French National Statistics Institute.
01:58of Indigenous companies that were entitled to the American Airlines Association.
02:03From the debit to 2018 and 2021, 80% of European organizations had done the same way,
02:07at the same time.
02:08Now we have a notification that we haveimos to receive an additional funding for the EUs that have not denied,
02:13and we are still looking for changes in which we have considered or not investigated,
02:16and we haven't received an additional funding to the EUs.
02:18In 2019, for the EUs, the EUs was made possible by the EUs.
02:19We can be able to use the EUs as well as the EUs, as well as the EUs, as the EUs...
02:22that are seen as well as the EUs.
02:23In 2019, as you can be able to use the EUs as the EUs.