Among those making announcements this year were Toyota and more surprisingly Nissan. Toyota is moving its Corolla production from Japan to its Derbyshire facility, increasing U.K. production by nearly a third to 220,000 vehicles a year by year's end. Nissan's outspoken CEO Carlos Ghosn warned the U.K. government earlier this year that if the country didn't adopt the euro common currency, then the new Micra production might be moved to the continent. Led by Prime Minister Tony Blair, British authorities rushed to provide Nissan's U.K. operations with a $58.5 million grant. But still this was not enough to sway Nissan's opinion, for labor concerns still loomed. The French policy of limited 35-hour workweeks gave the U.K. the push it needed, and to top the deal off, the U.K. committed to a 30 percent cost reduction through 2003.