Brussels, 06/10/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 5 October, the European Parliament (EP) budgets committee backed the allocation of more than €14 million for workers in Portugal, the Netherlands, Spain and Denmark who have been made redundant. The reports by Barbara Matera (EPP, Italy) on proposals to use the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) will be discussed during the EP plenary session in Strasbourg on 18-21 October.
The EU is proposing to allocate €2.4 million to 839 Portuguese workers who were formerly employed by Qimonda AG, a multinational electronics firm in the Norte region. 512 ex-employees of NXL Semiconductors, in the Gelderland and Eindhoven regions of the Netherlands will receive a total of €1.8 million. In Spain, support of €2.7 million will go to the Catalonia region, where 1,429 people working in 23 different car manufacturing companies were made redundant. The EGF will provide support of €7.5 million for 851 people made redundant by 45 companies manufacturing machinery equipment in the Nordjylland region in Denmark. (L.C./transl.rt)