MEPs say yes to EU support for 500 former truck industry workers in Sweden

A proposal to grant €1,793,710 in aid from the European Union's European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to Sweden to help find new jobs for 500 workers made redundant by Volvo Trucks, mainly at the Umeå plant, and by four of its suppliers and downstream producers, was approved by the European Parliament's plenary session on 13 April 2016.

ESO: Background information: Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (application from Sweden – EGF/2015/009 SE/Volvo Trucks) http://www.europeansources.info/record/proposal-for-a-decision-on-the-mobilisation-of-the-european-globalisation-adjustment-fund-application-from-sweden/

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