EU RELEASES AID FOR SPANISH TEXTILE SECTOR
October 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has now handed over Euro 3.3 million from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to the Spanish government to help retrain 1,100 workers in the Catalonian textiles sector. The money will be targeted at 1,720 workers made redundant recently from textile firms in Catalonia, who have shed 33% of their jobs in the past four years.
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THE EUROPEAN Commission has now handed over Euro 3.3 million from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to the Spanish government to help retrain 1,100 workers in the Catalonian textiles sector. The money will be targeted at 1,720 workers made redundant recently from textile firms in Catalonia, who have shed 33% of their jobs in the past four years.
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