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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10436

24 August 2011
GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/social affairs
Increase in Globalisation Fund support

Brussels, 23/08/2011 (Agence Europe) - The slow economic growth over the past few years has seen more frequent recourse by the member states to the European Globalisation Fund (EGF), which helped 60% more unemployed workers in 2010 than in 2009, according to the Annual EGF Report unveiled by the European Commission on Monday 22 August. In 2010, the EGF paid out €83.5 million to nine member states (Germany, Denmark, Spain, Ireland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia)...