Brussels, 10/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - As announced by EU Employment and Social Affairs Commissioner Vladimir Spidla (see EUROPE 9743), the European Commission submitted to the European Parliament and Council last week as plan to provide €35,158,075 from the Globalisation Fund to meet Italian requests for funding to help textile industry workers laid off in four regions (Sardinia, 1,044 redundancies; Piedmont 1,537 redundancies; Lombardy 1,816; and Tuscany 1,558 redundancies). It is recommended that funding should be provided as follows: €10,971,000; €7,798,750; €12,534,125 and €3,854,200. The European Commission believes that these redundancies in Italy are part of a general trend in the EU clothing and accessories industry to move production to cheaper locations outside the EU, as was shown in a previous request from Malta.
The Commission also comments that in their requests, the Italian authorities have provided statistics to show that the redundancies were the direct consequence of global changes in the textile industry. Draft proposal:
http: //eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM: 2008: 0609: FIN: EN: PDF (O.L. transl fl)