AUTO WORKERS IN SWEDEN, AUSTRIA, TO GET EU RETRAINING FUNDS
December 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FINAL approval has been given by the European Parliament for the European Union (EU) to spend Euro 15.6 million on helping Swedish and Austria auto industry workers who have lost their jobs through the global recession. The money will come from the EU's Globalisation Adjustment Fund. It will finance re-training, self-employment assistance and career counselling for these workers. The European Commission is to hand the money to the relevant governments by January 1.
The largest sum of money will go to Sweden, where Brussels is sending Euro 9.8 ...
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