A million jobs have already been lost in the industry.

Omissions

• The MEP did not specify the time period over which the one million jobs were lost. Available data from the ETUC refers to 2019–2023 ('almost a million'), and industriAll Europe reports ~200,000 manufacturing jobs lost in 2025, suggesting cumulative losses over multiple years rather than a sudden or recent drop.
• The figure of 'a million' rounds up the ETUC's 'almost a million' estimate for 2019–2023.
• Both corroborating sources are trade union press releases (ETUC and industriAll Europe), not primary Eurostat data. A direct primary-source confirmation from Eurostat was not found within the search constraints.
• The claim uses the broad term 'industry' (industrie); the available data specifically measures manufacturing jobs, which is the core of industrial employment but may not capture all industry sub-sectors.

Sources

• SecondaryETUC (European Trade Union Confederation)The EU lost almost a million manufacturing jobs between 2019 and 2023. The highest number of job losses were in Poland (-278,000), Romania (-144,000) and Germany (-129,000).
• SecondaryindustriAll EuropeIn 2025, the EU lost ca. 200K manufacturing jobs. More than 1 million industrial jobs at risk.