Press Release: €10.7 million from EU Globalisation Fund to help redundant workers in Spain and Lithuania

The European Commission made payments totalling €10.7 million from the European Globalisation adjustment Fund (EGF). The payment of €10.4 million to Spain will help some 1,600 workers made redundant when the American multinational Delphi decided to close down its factory in Cádiz and offshore production to its existing plant in Tangiers. A further €298,000 will help 600 dismissed textile workers from Alytaus Tekstilė in southern Lithuania to get back into work as quickly as possible. The payments follow approval by the Budgetary Authority (the European Parliament and the Council) on 22 October 2008.