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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10212
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/social

Six-fold increase in requests to European Globalisation Fund in 2009

Brussels, 10/09/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 9 September, the European Commission adopted its third annual report on the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF). The 2009 report shows that member states submitted six times more applications for EGF support for workers dismissed as a result of globalisation and the economic crisis. The EU granted €52.3 million from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) in 2009 to help some 11,000 dismissed workers in eight countries....

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