"cerrar sus puertas" in English

720 banks are on the verge of closure and the rest are unable to honour their undertakings.

That means that, in Germany alone, 50 000 companies closed and over 100 000 workers lost their jobs.

Hundreds of flooded businesses have had to close their doors, plunging their employees into the uncertainty of temporary unemployment.

The industry is a major employer of women and is under increasingly fierce competitive pressure, with the result that many businesses have had to close.

Every day that passes without clear ground rules, more and more small and medium-sized companies are in danger of being forced to shut down.

to fold up

Only in the last hour I have had the director of one Energy Centre on the phone claiming that the Centre is to close at the end of the year.

If we are not prepared to allow them to do that, we might as well mothball our national parliaments, turn them into museums and lock the door.

Next, it is quite important to understand that this system only exists when, unfortunately, a business winds up and has to file for bankruptcy, has to stop its activities.

Of course, Europe cannot close its doors, but neither should it open them so wide as to create ghettos or open them without having laid down the necessary preconditions beforehand.