In the last quarter of 2025, registrations of businesses in the EU increased by 0.5% compared with the third quarter of 2025.
At the same time, the number of bankruptcy declarations rose by 2.5% compared with the third 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.
Source dataset: sts_rb_q
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