"In fact the French are voting 'NON' for the most part because the EU will end govt subsidies."
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Article 28
Right of collective bargaining and action
Workers and employers, or their respective organisations, have, in accordance with Community law and national laws and practices, the right to negotiate and conclude collective agreements at the appropriate levels and, in cases of conflicts of interest, to take collective action to defend their interests, including strike action.
Article 29
Right of access to placement services
Everyone has the right of access to a free placement service.
Article 33
Family and professional life
1. The family shall enjoy legal, economic and social protection.
2. To reconcile family and professional life, everyone shall have the right to protection from dismissal for a reason connected with maternity and the right to paid maternity leave and to parental leave following the birth or adoption of a child.
Article 34
Social security and social assistance
1. The Union recognises and respects the entitlement to social security benefits and social services providing protection in cases such as maternity, illness, industrial accidents, dependency or old age, and in the case of loss of employment, in accordance with the rules laid down by Community law and national laws and practices.
2. Everyone residing and moving legally within the European Union is entitled to social security
benefits and social advantages in accordance with Community law and national laws and practices.
3. In order to combat social exclusion and poverty, the Union recognises and respects the right to
social and housing assistance so as to ensure a decent existence for all those who lack sufficient
resources, in accordance with the rules laid down by Community law and national laws and practices.
Article 35
Health care
Everyone has the right of access to preventive health care and the right to benefit from medical
treatment under the conditions established by national laws and practices. A high level of human
health protection shall be ensured in the definition and implementation of all Union policies and
activities.
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Southern and Western Finland are set to suffer the most from planned cuts in European Union subsidies. If the EU cuts its supports as planned, funding earmarked for promoting employment, for education, helping small companies, environmental protection, and rural development will be most severely hit. Subsidies for Northern and Eastern Finland would also decline, but they would still benefit from the special area status accorded to sparsely-populated areas when Finland joined the EU in 1995. The information is contained in reports drafted in the government’s EU Secretariat and various government ministries after EU Presidency-holder Luxembourg presented its plans for the next EU budget in Brussels on Sunday.
The Ministry of Finance says that both the annual structural fund support and rural development funding that Finland gets from the EU would decline by about EUR 100 million. Currently Finland gets about EUR 320 million in structural fund subsidies and about EUR 350 million in rural development supports. The cutbacks would not affect traditional agricultural subsidies, which Finland gets to the tune of about EUR 650 million a year.
The reductions are related to last year’s enlargement of the EU. With ten new member states, there are considerably more countries sharing the subsidy package. Under the Luxembourg proposal, a greater proportion of the funding would go to regional and structural policy aimed at evening out discrepancies in development within the EU. The greatest beneficiaries of this are the new, poorer member states. "The bill for enlargement is now coming due. First to go will be the money for prosperous countries, which is naturally difficult to oppose", notes one Finnish official.
If agreement is reached on the EU budget, subsidies for Finland would decline in 2-4 years. However, the exact amounts may not be known until next year, because the distribution of EU funding is a topic of hot debate.
Helsingin Sanomat