{"id":8425,"date":"2024-07-13T18:27:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T18:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/volkswagens-plant-closure-will-not-be-europes-last\/"},"modified":"2024-07-13T18:27:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T18:27:48","slug":"volkswagens-plant-closure-will-not-be-europes-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/volkswagens-plant-closure-will-not-be-europes-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen\u2019s plant closure will not be Europe\u2019s last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=a1a96f8f-9092-46d4-91d7-112feaf958b5\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>European auto investors are accustomed to bumpy rides. The sector is known for its tendency to chase volume, at the expense of margins, and periodically end up on the skids. In this light, news that Volkswagen is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/autos-transportation\/vw-group-lowers-forecast-possible-closure-audi-brussels-site-other-expenses-2024-07-09\/\" data-trackable=\"link\">pondering the closure<\/a> of the Audi plant in Brussels is comforting. Expect others to be forced to follow in its tail lights.<\/p>\n<p>VW\u2019s move is somewhat of a rarity. It would mark the German carmaker\u2019s first-ever plant closure in Europe. Ford\u2019s Saarlouis plant&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a1a96f8f-9092-46d4-91d7-112feaf958b5\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. European auto investors are accustomed to bumpy rides. The sector is known for its tendency to chase volume, at the expense of margins, and periodically end up on the skids. In this light, news that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-automotive"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eunewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}