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.
The French Secretary of State for Budget, Christian Eckert, announced the creation of 500 customs posts in 2017 in addition to the 735 positions already planned throughout 2017. The 500 customs officers will be deployed in 2017 as part of a plan to strengthen border control and counter-terrorism. In the days following the attacks of 13 November 2015, Francois Hollande announced a vast plan to strengthen the police, intelligence and customs personnel as well as their material means to face the jihadist threat. For customs services, this translated into 500 additional customs officers in 2016. "Five hundred other agents will be deployed during 2017, to which we must add the recruitment already envisaged in the various competitions of 735 agents," says Christian Eckert.
Eurofound (2017), Direction générale des douanes et droits indirects (DGDDI), Business expansion in France, factsheet number 90278, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/90278.
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...
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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...
