EU: European Commission agrees to EGF funding for Irish employees laid off by Dell

f the European Commission, announced, on September 19, that the EU was ready to pay for the reconversion program for Dell’s Irish workers – up to 14.8 million euro, via the European Globalization Adjustment Fund (EGF). For the case to be accepted, Dublin had to show that Dell’s restructuring was due to the global financial and economic crisis. Thus, Ireland enjoyed the EGF’s more flexible intervention criteria enforced on May 1. The Council of Ministers and the European Parliament still need to