Europe will come to the aid of employees made redundant in seven EU countries after falling victim to the crisis or relocation.

€31 million to find a job

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At one time, with the casual workers,  we had 4 to 5000 employees on the site.

The SevelNord site  near Valenciennes in France

has been hard hit by the crisis which  is ravaging Europe's car industry today.

In this sector is Peugeot,  which features among eight companies,

from seven EU states, which have been  examined by the Employment Committee.

It voted on Tuesday 9th October  to release a total of €31 million

to EU states in the framework of the  European Globalisation Adjustment Fund.

Dominique Riquet studied the situation  of the companies concerned.

He's keen to clarify the purpose  of these €31 million.

The basic idea is to try and come to the aid,  not of the companies,

but of their workers and to allow them  to possibly find work again,

either through training or redeployment.

Peugeot alone has justified the allocation  of €12 million to France

from the European Globalisation  Adjustment Fund.

Money badly spent, according to the trade  union representative Ludovic Bouvier.

This money must be used to maintain  activity and not to let it be destroyed.

As once we've allowed the jobs  to be destroyed,

anything we do is just like putting  a tiny plaster on a gaping wound.

Every time mechanisms have been put  in place which aim to improve a social tool,

But I don't think we should give a dog  a bad name and hang him.

We must be very careful in ensuring  that the dossiers are correctly put together.

Sometimes they can be revised, even  refused. Clearly that's always possible.

But I still think it's a mechanism  which remains very valuable for workers.