24/10/2014 (Agence Europe) - Further aid under EGF in France. On Friday 24 October, the European Commission proposed a further mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) in France, to the tune of €918,000. This money will go to 760 workers made redundant by the company GAD, which is active in pig slaughtering and meat processing. The total cost of the reclassification measures has been estimated at €1.5 million. The production sites which have been closed down are in Lampaul and Saint-Martin (Brittany) and Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique). France states that these closures are the result of the crisis and the drop in the consumption of pork. However, the National Pork Federation of France (FNP) argues that it is in fact mainly the competitiveness gap with Germany which is behind the closures, reports Le Figaro of 13 October. (JK)