Brussels briefing

Workers get a lesson in how money talks

Ex-Talk Talk workers here may just have got an application for EU funds in on time for a €5.4m retraining programme that can help them set up their own businesses. But a word to the wise — they might talk to Dell workers who struggled every inch of the way to force the Government to agree to release the €15m they got from Europe.

A drawn-out process meant not all the funding was spent by the Government, which is why Brussels is expecting about €6m of it back on the basis it wasn’t spent in time.