whats happening in the US is non-existant here. english-language tech-blogs are playing a minor role.

i'm talking about the mainstream papers, news portals, TV news here. Nokia is strong here, very strong. As a brand probably stronger than Google.

so while i do understand that Nokians don't pay much attention to a territory they're not successful in, anyway, you'd expect them to do some sort of PR in countries where they're omnipresent.

Lex Nokia is something that just must not leak if you're daffy enough to do it in the first place.

Bochum, in fact, was something that could have been a bright success story for Nokia: after all, while others have long left both the US and the EU and have their devices manufactured in the far east, Nokia opened a new plant right within the EU. That's the basic message: "We stay in Europe!" - Open this thing in Romania, let the public celebrate that you invest in Europe instead of in some developing country... and then, 3 months later, tell that because of the success of your new European flagship you concentrate your forces to this most modern site, closing down Bochum while you're at it.
That would have been a completely different story than "they move it from Bochum to Romania".