EPO dictators Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos love small economies where love can be bought cheaply (that they also speak French is a bonus, being their mother's tongue)
Summary: It's time for another round of fluff at the EPO, this time without even travelling (PR-over-'ViCo')
Unless IBM issues a statement (admission) to the media or issues WARN notices (in the US), the lousy media will simply assume - however wrongly - that nothing is happening and there's nothing to report
Any day that passes without European media and European politicians doing anything about it merely discredits the media and the EU (or national governments)