Brussels, 25/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Commissioner for employment and social affairs, Anna Diamantopoulou, signed a decision on Wednesday approving the new Community initiative programme EQUAL for Northern Ireland, for the period 2000-2006. The programme has a budgetary allocation of EUR 11.7 million from the Social Funds.
A press release specifies that, after broad consultation, Ireland decided to target its efforts on two key priorities: - employability (EUR 7 million), with...