EU: 10.7 million euro from EU Globalisation Fund to help redundant workers in Spain and Lithuania

The European Globalisation adjustment Fund (EGF) has made payments totalling 10.4 million euro to Spain to help some 1,600 workers made redundant, when the American multinational Delphi decided to close down its factory in Cadiz, to get back into work as quickly as possible. A further 298,000 euro will help 600 dismissed textile workers from Alytaus Tekstilè. (Ref. 080967)
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Help to Delphi’s workers in Spain. The Spanish application covered 1,589 redundancies: 1,521 at the Delphi factory and 68 at their suppliers. The American multinational decided to close down its factory in Puerto Real (Cádiz) and extend production facilities in its Tangier plant through a major investment and an increase of the workforce by 3,000 workers (see our dispatch N°070177). The European Commission pointed out, to justify the EGF intervention that : “The region of Tangiers offers lower

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