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A coffin representing the Opel plant is carried by protesters as a few thousand demonstrators from labor unions protest the closing of the OPEL plant in Antwerp, Belgium, and current economic conditions in the streets of Brussels, Friday Jan. 29, 2010.

A coffin representing the Opel plant is carried by protesters as a few thousand demonstrators from labor unions protest the closing of the OPEL plant in Antwerp, Belgium, and current economic conditions in the streets of Brussels, Friday Jan. 29, 2010.

A few thousand demonstrators from labor unions protest the closing of the OPEL plant in Antwerp, Belgium, and current economic conditions, in the streets of Brussels, Friday Jan. 29, 2010.

Some of the few thousand demonstrators from labor unions protesting the closing of the OPEL plant in Antwerp, Belgium, and current economic conditions, take to the streets of Brussels, Friday Jan. 29, 2010.

Some protesters hold a banner reading in Dutch "Opel Antwerpen no social bloodbath" as a few thousand demonstrators from labor unions protest the closing of the OPEL plant in Antwerp, Belgium, and current economic conditions, in the streets of Brussels, Friday Jan. 29, 2010.

Part of the few thousand demonstrators from labor unions protest the closing of the OPEL plant in Antwerp, Belgium, and current economic conditions, in the streets of Brussels, Friday Jan. 29, 2010.

European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton, left, talks with EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid Karel De Gucht after an EU Foreign Ministers meeting at the EU Council in Brussels, Monday Jan. 25, 2010.

European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton smiles during an EU Foreign Ministers meeting at the EU Council in Brussels, Monday Jan. 25, 2010.

CEO for General motors Europe, Nick Reilly addresses the media in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Reilly said Thursday Opel's plant in Antwerp, Belgium will close because of the shrinking European auto market.

CEO for General motors Europe, Nick Reilly walks past journalists after a media conference at a hotel in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Reilly said Thursday Opel's plant in Antwerp, Belgium will close with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs because the company has to cut capacity by 20 percent.

CEO for General motors Europe, Nick Reilly addresses the media at a hotel in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Reilly said Thursday Opel's plant in Antwerp, Belgium will close with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs because the company has to cut capacity by 20 percent.

CEO for General motors Europe, Nick Reilly addresses the media at a hotel in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Reilly said Thursday Opel's plant in Antwerp, Belgium will close with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs because the company has to cut capacity by 20 percent.

Nick Reilly, CEO for General motors Europe, listens while meeting the media at a hotel in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. General Motor's Opel unit will cut 8,300 jobs across Europe, including 4,000 in Germany, and close a plant in Antwerp, Belgium - casualties of the "tough reality" of a shrinking European auto market. Nick Reilly said that the Antwerp plant had to go, with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs, because the company needs to shed 20 percent of its manufacturing capacity. That's because far fewer cars are being sold as a result of the recession.

Nick Reilly, CEO for General motors Europe, addresses the media at a hotel in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. General Motor's Opel unit will cut 8,300 jobs across Europe, including 4,000 in Germany, and close a plant in Antwerp, Belgium - casualties of the "tough reality" of a shrinking European auto market. Nick Reilly said that the Antwerp plant had to go, with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs, because the company needs to shed 20 percent of its manufacturing capacity. That's because far fewer cars are being sold as a result of the recession.

Nick Reilly, CEO for General motors Europe, addresses the media at a hotel in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. General Motor's Opel unit will cut 8,300 jobs across Europe, including 4,000 in Germany, and close a plant in Antwerp, Belgium - casualties of the "tough reality" of a shrinking European auto market. Nick Reilly said that the Antwerp plant had to go, with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs, because the company needs to shed 20 percent of its manufacturing capacity. That's because far fewer cars are being sold as a result of the recession.

CEO for General motors Europe, Nick Reilly addresses the media at a hotel in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Reilly said Thursday Opel's plant in Antwerp, Belgium will close with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs because the company has to cut capacity by 20 percent.

CEO for General motors Europe, Nick Reilly, right and Executive Director of Manufacturing for Opel Reinald Hoben, arrive at a media conference at a hotel in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Reilly said Thursday Opel's plant in Antwerp, Belgium will close with the loss of more than 2,300 jobs because the company has to cut capacity by 20 percent.

A Bombardier Olympic Line train makes it's way to Granville Island after departing from near the Olympic Village Canada Line Station in Vancouver, British Columbia., on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Two streetcars, on loan from the Brussels Transport Company in Belgium, will provide free rides from the Olympic Village Canada Line Station to Granville Island between 6:30 am and 12:30 am from January 21 to March 21.

People board a Bombardier Olympic Line train near the Olympic Village Canada Line Station in Vancouver, British Columbia., on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Two streetcars, on loan from the Brussels Transport Company in Belgium, will provide free rides from the Olympic Village Canada Line Station to Granville Island between 6:30 am and 12:30 am from January 21 to March 21.

European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton, center, listens to questions during a media conference after a meeting of EU development and foreign ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. European Union nations are pledging more money to help rebuild quake-ravaged Haiti and are considering an international donor conference. Seated left is Spain's Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos and right is European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Karel De Gucht.