EU: the European Commission evaluates its actions on restructurings

On December 16, 2008, the European Commission presented a report on restructurings in Europe. The document gives a detailed evaluation of actions carried out at the European level. With this report, the Commission wants to feed reflection on European policies, especially the Lisbon Strategy, destined to evolve in the context of economic crisis Europe is going through. (Ref. 090007)
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An inevitable phenomenon. In its report, the European Commission starts from the premise that restructurings cannot be avoided in a context of globalization where technological evolution is always faster and demographic change increasingly pressing. The European executive lists the factors influencing businesses’ movements within the EU or to Asia, the main location for businesses choosing to relocate. Then, it looks into the data gathered by the European observatory on restructurings. About 7.

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