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[quote=ISS Payroll]
Dell won EU approval Wednesday to receive a euro54.4 million ($80.4 million) subsidy from the Polish government to build a new plant there, replacing Ireland as the computer maker's new European manufacturing hub.

The European Commission said it could allow the government aid the company because the new factory would create jobs in a disadvantaged part of Poland _ Lodz, the country's third-largest city _ where there is an unusually low standard of living and high unemployment.
The state will pay just over a quarter of the total investment of euro189.58 million in the plant which will eventually employ up to 3,000 people to make desktops, notebooks and servers, including Latitude and Inspiron models.

EU regulators said they investigated the subsidy carefully because they initially doubted that the plant needed state help and wanted to check that it didn't enrich Dell or help it make more of a product that wasn't selling.

Dell was Ireland's second-largest corporate employer, its biggest exporter and in recent years has contributed about 5 percent to the national gross domestic product.

So as Irish people we should show Dell how we feel about the them as they have now abandoned Ireland and moved to the next country that will give them a big subsidy and cheap labout. Where will the race to the bottom end.[/quote]