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"We voted for this resolution, although we disagree with certain points, especially regarding its vision of the Europe 2020 strategy. In addition, we know that the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) has emerged as a merely palliative measure in a time of worsening employment as a result of EU structural policies that jeopardise Europe’s industry and make life easier for multinationals, which do not accept any social responsibility. Furthermore, the EGF uses funding criteria that are deeply unfair and lead to situations like the ones we have already experienced in this plenary session, in which, for a similar number of workers, we have approved EUR 4.4 million in EGF aid to Germany, almost EUR 3.9 million to Denmark and only EUR 1.4 million to Portugal, despite the fact that Portugal is in the worst state. We should like to highlight the positive aspect of the resolution, which aims to amend the high cofinancing rate required of Member States, which is 35% of the total amount provided. In order to mitigate this situation, we hope the European Commission takes account of the need to change the national cofinancing rate and converges on our proposal to reduce it to only 5%, particularly for countries that are in a fragile state financially, like Portugal. That is why we voted in favour."@en1
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