Translation of "Caisse syndicale d'assurance chômage " (French → English) :

Unemployment insurance fund chosen by the employer.

Unemployment insurance fund chosen by the worker.

Whole populations have had to pay, by being condemned to excess unemployment and poverty, for the irrational exuberance of financial operators or of the asset-holders they represent (The latter can be workers in industrialised countries contributing to a pension fund, buying an insurance product or relying on a savings bank to give them a return on their assets, great or small.) If in the final analysis everyone is a 'speculator' in their own way, the speculative decisions that really matter are at all events taken by professionals, who also wield power in other ways.

Kansanelaekelaitos - Folkpensionsanstalten (Social Insurance Institution), Helsinki.

B. DENMARK 1. Completed periods of insurance, employment or self-employment in a Member State other than Denmark shall be taken into account for admission to membership of an approved unemployment insurance fund in the same way as if they were periods of employment or self-employment completed in Denmark.

When we look at unemployment, the minister is boasting of fantastic surpluses in the unemployment insurance fund, which he is putting toward reduction of the deficit, when we look at the restrictions which have helped accumulate the unemployment insurance fund surplus, the restrictions to the new employment insurance program, we see that this is no joke.