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- Redundancies in Carrefour retail stores due to increasing competition from online sellers outside the EU- 67 of Belgian consumers shopped online in 2018 - up from 46 in 2012Four hundred Wallonian workers dismissed by the Carrefour supermarket chain should receive EU aid worth 1632028 to help find new jobs MEPs decided on Thursday.The measure co-financed by the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund EGF would help the 400 workers find new jobs by providing them with career guidance job training entrepreneurship advice and contributions towards business start-up.In addition the measure will also provide support for up to 330 unemployed young people who are under the age of 25 and are not currently enrolled in education or training.The total estimated funding amounts to 2.7 million of which the EGF would provide 60 1.6 million.The draft report by Jos Manuel Fernandes EPP PT recommending that Parliament approve the aid was passed by 558 votes to 63 and 43 abstentions.Next stepsTo take effect the aid has yet to be approved by the Council which is still discussing it as not all member states have agreed on the measure up to now.
