The Japanese car maker Honda seems to want to close by 2022, its factory with 3500 employees in the southern English town of Swindon. The decision was linked to the global developments and not with the Brexit, said the conservative MP in the Region, Swindon, Justin Tomlinson, on Monday in the short message service Twitter with a reference to a conversation with the company. First, the channel Sky News and the BBC had reported about the factory’s closure.
by 2021, neither would be deleted, nor the production process is changed, the insured Tomlinson. A Honda spokesman said that the company will not comment “at this time, these speculations”. “We take our responsibility to our employees very seriously and to communicate all the important news first to you,” it said in a communication that is AFP. The company intends to announce his decision, according to media reports, early Monday morning.
The factory in Swindon was Honda’s only production site in the EU. Here was produced in the past 24 years, the model Civic for the global market. According to Sky News, Honda wants to maintain its European headquarters in nearby Bracknell.
for the end of March planned Brexit in the economy for a lot of uncertainty. Still, it is unclear whether the separation is messy, or whether it will be in the UK still have a parliamentary majority for an exit agreement with the EU.
The Japanese car maker Nissan had buried at the beginning of February his plans for the production of its SUV X-Trail in the North of England Sunderland, and gave as a reason for uncertainty about the Brexit.
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Earlier, the European aerospace and defence group Airbus “very painful” decisions for Britain to exit the EU without an agreement announced. The Japanese electronics giant Sony wants to relocate its European headquarters from fear of the consequences of a hard Brexit from the UK to the Netherlands. (AFP)
