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An explosion hit a facility of Czech defence group STV on Tuesday, officials said, with police saying the blast was likely caused by a technical defect in a production…
The European Commission has shut out defence companies from the UK and other third countries from the European Union’s common defence fund.
Almost every topic at the European Council on March 20 came down to one thing: competitiveness.
German automotive supplier ZF has endured a brutal 2024 and reported yearly losses of more than €1 billion.
Labour costs in the European Union have continued a steady climb, adding pressure to an economy already grappling with sluggish growth and global uncertainty.
The European Commission has presented its plans making clear that the European Union does not want to continue relying on the US for its security and must build…
Siemens, one of Germany’s biggest industrial conglomerates, has announced a tough cost-cutting programme that would see 5,600 jobs disappear in its Digital Industries…
German weapons manufacturer Rheinmetall has announced plans to convert a Volkswagen car factory in Osnabrück (Lower Saxony) into a production facility for armoured…
Belgium’s recently closed Audi Brussels factory could soon be transformed into a military defence production site, the country's Minister of Defence Theo Francken…
French defence minister Sébastien Lecornu has confirmed Paris was in talks with Ukraine over access to key raw materials, particularly for military use amid growing…
Industry leaders have poured scorn on the European Commission's Clean Industrial Deal proposal, designed to reinforce European industry and cut energy prices while…
In the presentation of its new vision for European Union agriculture and food, the European Commission has announced a notable course correction.
The number of new building permits in Germany for apartments has dropped by 17 per cent to the lowest level since 2010 - in what was described as “a balance sheet…
Carmaker Porsche plans to cut an additional 1,900 jobs across the entire company over the next four years after a programme that has already started was determined…
Nicole Grünewald, president of the Cologne Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK Köln), has dismissed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's remarks about the state of…
The German-French defence group KNDS has acquired a factory for train wagons in Eastern Germany and will turn it into a production facility for battle tanks and…
KTM, Europe’s biggest manufacturer of motorcycles by sales, is mulling moving a large part of its production capacity to either India or China, according to company…
Northvolt asked more than 100 shareholders at a meeting this month to provide $1.29 billion (€1.
Eurozone inflation has hit 2.4 per cent on an annual basis in its third straight increase.
The mass exodus of companies from Germany has shown the country was now effectively "bankrupt", the head of an industry organisation has said.
A major restructuring and cost-cutting operation at Evonik, a publicly-listed German specialty chemicals company, could reduce its workforce by one-fifth.
German industrial giant Bosch will lay off thousands more employees than it had already announced, it said on December 11.
Jonas Grafström, an economic researcher and visiting fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, has written a highly critical report on the European Union's…
European car companies are locked in an increasingly bitter struggle to maintain profits and market share amid a secular downturn in sales of internal combustion…
Airbus has announced it is cutting more than 2,000 jobs across Europe within its Defence and Space division, citing economic challenges and intensifying competition…
