European Social Fund

Here and now we are concerned not with the existence or otherwise of the European social fund.

This will have far-reaching results on the European social fund in the coming period.

Finally I would like to draw your attention to the European social funds.

We want acceleration where the European social funds are involved, and I could go on like this for at least another five minutes.

It also proposed the creation of common transport and agriculture policies and a European social fund.

The European Social Fund plays a key role in improving the employment situation and creating jobs.

It is very important that the four main areas of the European Social Fund's activities remain the same:

Next, there is the underspend of the appropriations: some 20 % for the structural funds and 24 % for the European social fund, in particular.

In addition there are many complaints about the slow handing-over of the European social fund monies to the eventual recipient.

In addition, the European Social Fund should be used to finance training programmes in this sector.

The aims of the fund relate to the challenges that crop up in integration and therefore complement measures under the European Social fund.

As draftsman of the opinion I have concentrated primarily on the expenditure of the European social fund in the various objective regions.

National Member State governments must also take into account the provisions of the new European Social Fund regulations.

The new Member States in particular are not able to make sufficient use of the financial instrument for this area, which is the European Social Fund.

The Commission also supports those Member States which would like to reprogram the European Social Fund.

The European social fund is the most important form of support the European Union extends to the labour market policy of the Member States.

The two main grants are from the European Regional Development Fund and European Social Fund.

The European Social Fund is a key instrument in helping boost economic and social cohesion in EU states.

Madam President, maintaining the European social fund is of extreme importance for the social face of the European Union.

According to the Department of Industry Intermagnetics was offered £400 000 as a discretionary grant and has also received £100000 in training grants from the European social fund.

The European Parliament has voted for a resolution on the future of the European Social Fund (ESF).

As such, the Commission will undertake measures to support European Social Fund managing authorities and intermediate bodies to step up the promotion of self-employment and micro-enterprises.

With regard to the objective 2 areas, Limburg and Turnhout, the situation is markedly better, especially as far as expenditure within the European social fund are concerned.

The European Social Fund was created in the founding Treaty of Rome in 1957; it is the oldest of the Structural Funds.

Statistics factsheet: offering an overview of the European Social Fund's activities 2007-2013, this leaflet gives a breakdown of the key facts and figures relating to the programme.