Around 5,800 people will be receiving training, thanks to €17 million from the European Social Fund which will be used to pay for two schemes.

The government said that the schemes were aimed at the long-term unemployed, and at persons with disability, as well as vulnerable people who were not working.

The schemes - the Vaste Programme and the Work Programme Initiative - are designed to be customised to the individual's needs and realities.

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