On 1 March, the European Commission adopted a Regulation to install a "Globalisation Adjustment Fund". The President of the Commission José Manuel Barroso underlined that, "No Member State, not even one of the biggest, can respond to globalisation alone. The Fund is a kind of European insurance policy and will equip workers with new tools for new and better jobs. The fund is for citizens, people".
Up to 50,000 people could benefit from the fund, which will come from money allocated t...
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