On Friday 3 April, the AEGIS Europe Alliance of European Manufacturers called on European officials to protect manufacturing companies from a "great takeover" by foreign producers.
The Alliance, which represents more than 20 EU manufacturing associations, is also concerned about 'strategic' inflows of products from non-Member States (see other news).
"The crisis could become the final straw for many EU manufacturing industries already reeling from unfairly traded, predatory imports", argued...