Brussels, 05/04/2011 (Agence Europe) - With its adoption on Tuesday 5 April of the reports by Barbara Matera (EPP, Italy), the European Parliament (EP) supported proposals allowing money to be made available from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to help workers the Czech Republic and in Poland who lost their jobs when their firms closed. The EP also asked for an evaluation of the long-term impact of EGF aid.
The Czech Republic will receive €323,820 in EGF aid to help find new jobs for 634 former workers at Unilever ÈR, a retailer in the Central Bohemia region.
€453,570 will be allocated to Poland to help find new jobs for 200 former workers after 594 workers were made redundant at three firms in the Subcarpathian region which produced machinery and equipment. The Council has already given its approval (see EUROPE 10342). (L.G./transl.rt)