Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
ITER is a multinational agreement signed on 21 November 2006 by seven partners: European Union, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea, the United States and India, representing half the world's population. It will create an experimental fusion reactor in southern France aimed at revolutionising global energy use for future generations. 3,000 new job will be created between November 2006 and November 2010 in France.
The ITER project will attempt to combat global warming by offering an alternative to polluting fossil fuels. Climate change and secure energy sources are key priorities worldwide in the decades to come. After 2010, the project is expected to create about 10,000 jobs. The EU is to foot around 50% of the cost to build the experimental reactor, with the six other parties contributing 10% each. The total investment is expected to reach 10 billion euro.
Eurofound (2006), Iter, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 64488, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/64488.
This working paper offers a comprehensive methodological overview of the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) databases. Even though the methodology has not changed over time, new categories have been added, and the way it has been used by researchers and policymakers...
This Eurofound research paper explores key trends in restructuring in recent years, highlighting the companies that announced the largest job losses and job gains in the EU. It builds on an analysis of company announcements recorded in Eurofound’s European Restructuring...
In 2023, thousands of workers in big tech lost their jobs. Meta, Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Salesforce had been considered to offer good and secure jobs up to this point. Giants of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector,...
In 2024, the automotive sector in the EU came to the fore in public and policy discussions. The focus was on the slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales, rising global competition, belated investments in new technologies, and the potential closure...
The more employee monitoring resembles surveillance – with its systematic, continuous and detailed tracking of employees' activities, behaviours or communications – the greater the potential for infringement of both privacy and data protection rights. Although the EU General Data Protection...
Since 2013, Eurofound's ERM database on restructuring-related legislation has been documenting regulatory developments in the Member States of the European Union and Norway which are explicitly or implicitly linked to anticipating and managing change. The most recent update to the...
