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.
Thales, a French high‑technology group active in defence, aerospace, and cyber and digital technologies, announced plans to recruit 140 employees in Poland in 2026 as part of a global hiring programme of more than 9,000 new employees worldwide (Thales 2026 – WO). The recruitment mainly concerns engineering and technical roles.
The hiring initiative is intended to support the group’s continued expansion across its core business areas, in a context of sustained demand for advanced defence, aerospace and digital solutions, including rising defence expenditure. The expansion is linked to long‑term investment in high technologies such as software and systems engineering, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and data‑related activities. At group level, around 40% of the new roles are expected to be in engineering functions, while approximately 25% will be in industrial roles, including technicians, operators and engineers.
Thales operates in 68 countries and employs around 83,000 people worldwide, including over 1,200 in Poland.
Eurofound (2026), Thales, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 204496, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/204496.
Eurofound’s ERM restructuring legislation database offers an overview of key restructuring-related regulations in the EU Member States and Norway. Its content is continuously updated to reflect any changes made by national legislators in response to, for instance, policy shifts, legal...
Can Europe still achieve its ambitions for battery manufacturing? To answer this, the article looks at data from Eurofound’s European Restructuring Monitor and explores what recent large-scale restructuring events reveal about the state of play in the EU battery sector.
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...
