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.
On 15 July 2025, Sabena Engineering, part of the Sabena Aerospace group, officially inaugurated a new state-of-the-art aircraft maintenance hangar at Brussels Airportm and will hire 100 new staff.
The facility, which spans 8,620 square metres, is designed to accommodate wide-body aircraft such as the Airbus A330 and Boeing 787. The investment aims to strengthen the company’s position in the European maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) market for both commercial and defence purposes. The hangar is equipped with the latest technologies and is part of a broader strategy to support sustainable aviation and meet growing demand for aircraft maintenance services. The project was supported by the Belgian federal government and Flanders Investment & Trade.
Eurofound (2025), Sabena Engineering, Business expansion in Belgium, factsheet number 203073, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203073.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
