Individual countries face huge job losses unless they prop up their automakers, a leading industry figure said on Monday.

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“Job destruction will be massive in those countries that do not rapidly help the auto sector to finance itself,” Renault-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn told a conference, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).


“It will not be seen immediately, but in a few years,” he said at the event in Japan.

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