Negotiators from the European Parliament and the EU Council reached agreement, on Wednesday 16 December, on the regulation establishing the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for displaced workers (EGF) after 2020, which relaxes the trigger threshold for assistance by lowering it to 200 dismissed workers.
“We managed to reduce the threshold for the number of redundancies that would allow a Member State to apply for EGF assistance to 200”, welcomed rapporteur Vilija Blinkevičiūtė...