Eurometal Association warns of huge job losses in Europe due to China's dominance of supply chains

Al-Ghadrian newspaper reported that Eurometal stressed in a statement that the European Union may lose a large number of jobs if it does not stop the “colonization” of the industrial sector in Chinese component factories.

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The European Union accuses China of using its economy as a weapon against global trade

Association President Alexander Julius said: “China does not want to be just a supplier of raw materials, but rather seeks to be a supplier of finished products. They want to penetrate the vital supply chains for products, because once they control the supply chain, they will take over the entire value-added chain.”

To attract the attention of political decision-makers, the Eurometal Association will organize a protest march in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. Participants will carry ten symbolic coffins on which phrases such as “the European Union’s ability to compete” and “European factories” are written, in a move that embodies the disastrous and tragic situation that the industrial sector in Europe has reached.

European factories are caught in a double trap: on the one hand, they face fierce competition from China, and on the other hand, they suffer from sharply rising energy prices and taxes on carbon emissions. According to European Commission forecasts, the total job losses in the region due to global competition and the energy crisis may exceed one million jobs.

In recent years, relations between China and the European Union have witnessed remarkable complexity due to Brussels' trade policies. In the fall of 2025, Bloomberg reported that the European Union was considering the possibility of obliging Chinese companies to transfer their technology and expertise in exchange for allowing them to access the European market.

Last June, Manfred Weber, leader of the European People's Party — the largest political bloc in the European Parliament — called on the European Union to start adopting a tougher trade policy toward China. Weber pointed out that the trade deficit, “which is approximately one billion euros per day due to Chinese industry,” is now threatening the entire industrial sector of the bloc countries.