During a meeting with a group of Irish MEPs, European Commissioner Vladimir Spidla said he was ready to help, "at all costs", the 1.900 employees of Dell's factory in Limerick, Ireland, threatened to be laid off since the company decided to relocate in Poland. If the European Globalization Adjustment Fund (EGF) were mobilized, it would be the first time the EU rescued employees from an intra-Community relocation… provided that Ireland lifted its hesitation on asking the EGF to intervene and that, if necessary, it meets the fund's other intervention criteria. (Ref. 090062)
These days, the European Commission has been extremely active in dealing with the Dell case. Shortly after the American company announced it would relocate in Poland, the European Commissioner in charge of Social Affairs, Vladimir Spidla, met, on January 14, with a group of Irish MEPs and promised unconditional support from the EU for the social plan which threatens about 1.900 Irish jobs.
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