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Lufthansa TechnikAlmost 1,500 workers made redundant in Greece and Ireland in 2014 should receive EU aid worth €11.3 million to help them find jobs, the Budgets Committee recommended on Monday (16 March). The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) aid still has to be approved by Parliament as a whole.

Greek broadcaster and publisher: €8.7 million

 Athens-based Attica Broadcasting and Attica Publishing made 1,633 workers redundant when the crisis forced Greek households to reduce spending on non-essentials, including television subscriptions and newspapers. Newspapers lost 60% of their subscribers from 2009 to 2013, and mass media firms lost half their key source of revenue as advertisers withdrew.

Budgets Committee MEPs approved the Greek authorities’ applications for aid to complement their own efforts to re-train and find jobs for the laid-off workers. The €5.04m for the broadcaster is the first application for EGF aid in the mass media sector, while the €3.75m for the publisher is the second in the publishing sector.

 Irish aircraft repair shop: €2.5m

The Irish subsidiary of Lufthansa Technik, an aircraft maintenance and repair service in south-east Ireland closed when its operation proved costly and its customers switched to new technologies. Its business repairing and trading in mostly classic engines and their spare parts was pushed out by the arrival of a new generation of aircraft increasingly manufactured and serviced in Asia. With the recent closure of several similar companies in Ireland, its former workers face considerable difficulties in finding jobs.

At the company and its two subsidiaries, 450 people were made redundant, prompting the Irish authorities to request €2.5m in EGF aid to help retrain workers, put them through higher education or help them set up their own firms.

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Parliament as a whole is to vote on the applications at its plenary session on 25 March. The Council approved the applications yesterday (16 March).

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