I don't hear it so much theseadays,but not so long back I read articles and wotnot wherein countries took positive action when their big manufacturers were under threat by other countries manufacturers. France or Germany just said Non or Nein. Rules and regs and sophistry were set up so's that their big guns could not be bought by any outsider(s). It just couldn't happen. Water,rail,aerospace,engineering...wotever,just had to stay in German?French hands. I'm not too sure about Japan and others. I think the US still have some say-so on somesuch(anyways,their tech gizmo firms own or gobble-up most other techno start ups). We,on the other hand,said let-the-markets-work. Then everything was all sold off and we owned nothing. Stands to reason when governments and big biz believe in their own countries when any blowback happens you bring stuff back to your own country and peoples. We have non of that. And more recently we haven't got any of our own people. We are now completely globalized. Maybe we're just like an old prostitute whose finished. We've sold out.
As said,any German manufacturer who wants to make their workforce redundant has to pay/pay back the German government/employee big time for such-a-thing to go ahead. Here,P45 and a finger pointing down the road to the dole office. If I was HQ where would you choose to fire people?
BS,or some reason to it?