98new entries
+6,400new jobs announced
19,230employees affected
Expansions 14Infrastructure 5Mergers 32Policy 17Digitalization 2Layoffs 7Closures 21
Largest reports
- BMW launches voluntary programme to cut 8,000 jobs worldwide · Layoffs · 🇩🇪 Germany · 8,000 Affected staff
- Porsche agrees with works council to cut 5,000 jobs by 2035 · Layoffs · 🇩🇪 Germany · 5,000 Affected staff
- Aragon grants final approval for €4.1bn battery gigafactory in Figueruelas · Expansions · 🇪🇸 Spain · +4,000 New jobs
- Vodafone confirms cutting 1,200 jobs across Europe · Layoffs · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · 1,200 Affected staff
- Amazon converts Pforzheim site into robotics hub, adding 1,000 jobs · Expansions · 🇩🇪 Germany · +1,000 New jobs
Follow-up
- Vodafone confirms cutting 1,200 jobs across Europe · Layoffs · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · completed
- Damen Shipyards Mangalia lays off all 1,011 employees · Layoffs · 🇷🇴 Romania · completed
- DB dissolves DB E.C.O. Group and winds down overseas rail operations · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany · completed
- Joyson Safety Systems closes Jibou plant, cutting 96 jobs · Closures · 🇷🇴 Romania · completed
- Torsion Construction of Leeds enters administration, 115 jobs · Closures · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · completed
- IDKIDS cuts 244 jobs and closes 57 stores in France · Closures · 🇫🇷 France · completed
- Tarascon pulp mill faces liquidation, 275 jobs lost · Closures · 🇫🇷 France · completed
New relocations
- Joyson Safety Systems closes Jibou plant, cutting 96 jobs · Closures · 🇷🇴 Romania
Situation
- No situation level changed.
All entries of the week
- Report: AstraZeneca denies merger talks with Bristol Myers Squibb · Mergers · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom / USA
- EU AI Act transparency rules become applicable · Policy · 🇪🇺 EU-27
- Corte Diletto completes new ice-cream factory in Elin Pelin · Expansions · 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
- Network Rail opens Okehampton Interchange station in Devon · Infrastructure · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Hungary reactivates Dombóvár–Komló railway after three years · Infrastructure · 🇭🇺 Hungary
- Tallinn opens Ülemiste tram tunnel, restoring tram link to the airport · Infrastructure · 🇪🇪 Estonia
- DB Regio fully absorbs its subsidiary Regionalverkehre Start Deutschland · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Sweden's competition law reform takes effect · Policy · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Sweden requires telecoms to block fraudulent calls and texts · Policy · 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Endesa to cut 230 jobs in Spain · Layoffs · 🇪🇸 Spain
- JTEKT to cut around 300 jobs at Plzeň plant · Layoffs · 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
- Bakery Wahl files for insolvency, affecting 400 jobs · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Depot lays off 330 staff, closing 105 stores · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany
- DB dissolves DB E.C.O. Group and winds down overseas rail operations · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Report: Latvijas Finieris plans €300m plant in Latgale · Expansions · 🇱🇻 Latvia
- D3: Nažidly–Austrian border section opens · Infrastructure · 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
- Dalli group files takeover of Farmol with Dutch regulator ACM · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany / Italy / Netherlands
- HANOS files takeover of poultry trader Nico van de Bunt · Mergers · 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- Couche-Tard makes takeover offer for Polish retailer Żabka · Mergers · 🇨🇦 Canada / Poland
- Arval completes acquisition of fleet manager Athlon · Mergers · 🇫🇷 France / Netherlands
- Report: NXP in talks to acquire Ambarella · Mergers · 🇳🇱 Netherlands / USA
- CARAC acquires majority stake in wealth manager Cedrus & Partners · Mergers · 🇫🇷 France
- Groupe Aurige acquires metalwork firms Verre & Métal and HEFI · Mergers · 🇫🇷 France
- Appeninn completes takeover of Dekada's Polish retail portfolio · Mergers · 🇵🇱 Poland / Hungary
- Norway's wealth fund and Sonae Sierra buy Spanish shopping centres · Mergers · 🇳🇴 Norway / Portugal / Spain
- Scatec to acquire Urleasca wind project in Romania for €168m · Mergers · 🇳🇴 Norway / Sweden / Romania
- MOL to buy Shell's 35% stake in Aphrodite gas field off Cyprus · Mergers · 🇭🇺 Hungary / United Kingdom / Cyprus
- Germany introduces right-to-repair claim against manufacturers · Policy · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Romania declares energy alert over low Danube water levels · Policy · 🇷🇴 Romania
- Poland's Sejm passes national Digital Services Act law · Policy · 🇵🇱 Poland
- EU extends suspension of its countermeasures against US tariffs · Policy · 🇪🇺 EU-27 / USA
- NWL adopts 2027 funding programme with EUR 26 million for 39 projects · Policy · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Betfred plans to close 132 betting shops, cutting over 600 jobs · Closures · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Jupiter Bach builds new assembly hall in Cuxhaven for up to €4.5m · Expansions · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Amazon converts Pforzheim site into robotics hub, adding 1,000 jobs · Expansions · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Indra invests €18m in As Pontes plant, up to 120 jobs · Expansions · 🇪🇸 Spain
- Portobello Capital to buy majority of Béaba Suavinex · Mergers · 🇪🇸 Spain / France
- UK's CMA opens probe into completed Southern Co-operative deal · Mergers · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- ENNOCONN falls short of majority in Kontron mandatory offer · Mergers · 🇦🇹 Austria / Taiwan
- Ferrero merges Michel & Augustin and Delacre biscuit brands · Mergers · 🇧🇪 Belgium / France
- German AI market surveillance law enters into force · Policy · 🇩🇪 Germany
- EU Commission opens tender for seven AI gigafactories, pledges €10bn · Digitalization · 🇪🇺 EU
- Jaguar Land Rover announces cuts of several hundred jobs · Layoffs · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Diab shuts Šiauliai plant, cutting 75 of 76 jobs · Closures · 🇱🇹 Lithuania
- Insolvent Kauno staklės dismisses all 126 employees · Closures · 🇱🇹 Lithuania
- Diehl Aviation opens new Craiova plant, aiming for 500 jobs · Expansions · 🇷🇴 Romania
- Solvay expands La Rochelle rare-earth plant for €15-20m · Expansions · 🇫🇷 France
- Report: Schneider Electric in early talks over Shelly Group · Mergers · 🇧🇬 Bulgaria / France
- Red Cat withdraws preliminary offer for Steyr Motors · Mergers · 🇦🇹 Austria / USA
- UK's CMA opens probe into Macquarie's Energy Assets Group deal · Mergers · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Hungary's antitrust body clears Vajda-Papír's purchase of Sofidel plant · Mergers · 🇭🇺 Hungary
- Apax to acquire Gerresheimer's plastic packaging business and Centor · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany / United Kingdom / Vereinigte Staaten
- German cabinet approves 2027 renewable energy law overhaul · Policy · 🇩🇪 Germany
- BMW launches voluntary programme to cut 8,000 jobs worldwide · Layoffs · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Saint-Gaudens pulp mill wins reprieve, 270 jobs in the balance · Closures · 🇫🇷 France
- Pfizer to abandon Catania plant, affecting 370 jobs · Closures · 🇮🇹 Italy
- Joyson Safety Systems closes Jibou plant, cutting 96 jobs · Closures · 🇷🇴 Romania
- SSi group in Dordrecht declared insolvent, 37 jobs lost · Closures · 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- Geestferkel files for insolvency, directly affecting 188 jobs · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Pollin Electronic files for insolvency, affecting 140 jobs · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Torsion Construction of Leeds enters administration, 115 jobs · Closures · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Rijkswaterstaat tenders replacement of the Nederweert canal siphons · Infrastructure · 🇳🇱 Netherlands
- Univar Solutions acquires chemical distributor Interpur · Mergers · 🇪🇸 Spain / USA
- Micross Components to acquire Berlin electronics maker AEMtec · Mergers · 🇺🇸 USA / Germany
- Mutares to acquire Stellantis's Free2move car-sharing business · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany / Netherlands / France
- Cover Genius acquires Berlin insurtech Friendsurance · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany / USA
- Knorr-Bremse sells HVAC business Merak to OpenGate Capital · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany / Spain
- Report: Ireland holds off sanctioning Aughinish refinery · Policy · 🇮🇪 Ireland
- Lufthansa firms up plan to cut up to 550 jobs in savings drive · Layoffs · 🇩🇪 Germany
- IDKIDS cuts 244 jobs and closes 57 stores in France · Closures · 🇫🇷 France
- GE Vernova upgrades Veresegyház turbine plant for $24.5m · Expansions · 🇭🇺 Hungary
- ACCUREC doubles Krefeld recycling site for €5.5m · Expansions · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Reolum plans €2.8bn decarbonisation projects in Castile and León · Expansions · 🇪🇸 Spain
- Aragon grants final approval for €4.1bn battery gigafactory in Figueruelas · Expansions · 🇪🇸 Spain
- Micromania-Zing unveils modernisation plan with new flagship store · Expansions · 🇫🇷 France
- YIT to build tank assembly plant in Kaunas for around €30m · Expansions · 🇱🇹 Lithuania
- Report: Nitro-Chem and BAE Systems plan UK munitions plant · Expansions · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- RWE completes increase to 55% stake in Amprion · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany
- VusionGroup to acquire Spanish retail-media firm In-Store Media · Mergers · 🇫🇷 France / Spain
- DCC recommends improved KKR-Energy Capital Partners takeover bid · Mergers · 🇮🇪 Ireland / United Kingdom / USA
- CTC lifts stake in Ermes Department Stores to 86% · Mergers · 🇨🇾 Cyprus
- DHL eCommerce to take over parcel group Venipak in the Baltics · Mergers · 🇩🇪 Germany / Lithuania / Latvia / Estonia
- EU Commission approves €300m Italian aid for hauliers · Policy · 🇮🇹 Italy
- EU Commission issues guidance on social-support state aid · Policy · 🇪🇺 EU-27
- France moves to ratify EU-Vietnam investment pact · Policy · 🇫🇷 France / EU / Vietnam
- France approves OECD crypto information-exchange deal · Policy · 🇫🇷 France
- Hungary announces VAT exemption for prescription medicines · Policy · 🇭🇺 Hungary
- Czechia limits renewable acceleration zones to 297 km² · Policy · 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
- Germany publishes funding guideline for the AI IPCEI · Digitalization · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Porsche agrees with works council to cut 5,000 jobs by 2035 · Layoffs · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Vodafone confirms cutting 1,200 jobs across Europe · Layoffs · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Franz Schneider (Rolly Toys) to close Neustadt site, 110 jobs · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Mata Automotive to close plant in Veľký Krtíš district, 119 jobs · Closures · 🇸🇰 Slovakia
- Tarascon pulp mill faces liquidation, 275 jobs lost · Closures · 🇫🇷 France
- Westermann Druck to stop Zwickau production, 170 jobs · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Lenzing to end fibre output in Heiligenkreuz, cutting 285 jobs · Closures · 🇦🇹 Austria
- Lenzing to end Grimsby lyocell output by 2027 · Closures · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Kitchen maker Menke files for insolvency in Rödinghausen · Closures · 🇩🇪 Germany