Theme of the day of 11 December 2006

The European Parliament will debate a report of French MEP Roselyne Bachelot (EPP-ED) on the European Globalisation Fund. The fund will provide up to €500 million each year to help reintegrate into the labour market workers made redundant due to changes in global trade patterns. The fund may, for example, help workers from the Volkswagen plant in Forest, Belgium.

The report of Rosalyne Bachelot was adopted with an overwhelming majority in the Employment Committee of the EP in October and is expected to pass through the Plenary without any difficulty.


Press release:

29/11/2006

29/11/2006: Volkswagen Forest employees should qualify for help from European Globalisation Fund. MEPs Roselyne Bachelot, Ivo Belet and Raymond Langendries

Establishment of the European Globalisation adjustment Fund - Information file

European Globalisation Fund supported but scope broadened

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