In the second quarter of 2025, the number of registrations of EU businesses increased by 4.6% compared with the first quarter of 2025.
At the same time, the number of bankruptcy declarations increased by 1.7% compared with the first quarter of 2025.
This information comes from data on business registrations and bankruptcies published by Eurostat today. This article presents a handful of findings from the more detailed Statistics Explained article on quarterly registrations of new businesses and declarations of bankruptcies. (....)