Europe’s auto supplier industry faces big job losses – CLEPA

European automotive supplier commercialized relation CLEPA says that Europe’s automotive supplier assemblage is rapidly losing jobs and faces a ‘structural reset’ that argumentation enactment has yet to address.

CLEPA says occupation losses person surpassed 100,000 successful lone 2 years, dramatically outpacing the complaint of caller occupation creation. In 2025, the European automotive proviso manufacture announced 50,000 occupation losses. Added to the 54,000 already recorded successful 2024, this brings the full occupation cuts implicit the past 2 years to 104,000, CLEPA says.

CLEPA besides estimates that lone 7,000 caller positions were announced successful 2025, intelligibly showing that the existent occupation instauration has fallen dramatically abbreviated of compensating for the workforce reductions announced.

CELPA says the European Commission’s caller Automotive Package takes a archetypal measurement successful the close direction, including much flexible exertion pathways and section contented provisions. But it adds that further improvement is needed to make existent flexibility and fortify competitiveness and European production, without adding complexity and costs.

The commercialized assemblage besides maintains that the EU indispensable little vigor prices and easiness administrative burdens, portion targeted measures are besides needed to sphere captious accumulation capacities successful the region.

Benjamin Krieger, Secretary General of CLEPA, said: “We request to halt the bleeding: Over 100,000 radical successful the automotive proviso concatenation person mislaid oregon are astir to suffer their jobs - that’s 140 families affected each azygous day. The Automotive Package present needs to deliver: safeguarding livelihoods and keeping engineering endowment successful Europe by restoring just competition, reducing operational costs, and giving companies existent regulatory flexibility.”

Potential Greenland tariffs travel connected apical of different pressures

Europe’s automotive manufacture is besides reeling nether the imaginable interaction of caller tariffs connected shipments to the US.

US President Trump’s threatened 10% further import tariff for European companies implicit Greenland would beryllium piled connected apical of existing tariffs connected automotive products.

The caller tariff, if imposed, would use from 1 February astatine 10%, rising to 25% successful June if a woody connected Greenland being 'owned' by the US – it is presently a semi-autonomous territory belonging to Denmark – is not concluded by then. A fig of countries, including the UK and Germany, person been singled retired by Trump for the caller tariffs. EU car shipments to the US are already taxable to a 15% import tariff, portion an interim woody with the UK has acceptable them astatine 10%.

Companies with large yearly car income to the US, specified arsenic Mercedes, BMW, Volvo Cars and Jaguar Land Rover, basal to person their margins connected US concern deed further.