(28 Jan 2020, 11:36 am)deanmachine wrote In before everyone complaining it's not a Japanese manufacturer that merely assembles completely Japanese manufactured trains in a small factory in County Durham.
The irony being, that the EU procurement legislation they followed (https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/publi...-buyers_en), is supposed to assist taxpayers within member states.
Stadler are based in Switzerland (not in eu last time I checked) and there will be an impact on taxpayers within the areas affected by possible job losses at Hitachi and others who were involved in the tendering process and have sites within the EU...
I wonder if the headline could be 'EU legislation means that work goes out of the EU and EU members and their states suffer as a result of EU legislation'?