(B2) The Commission is deciding not to legislate on parental leave for the time being. The negotiations it is launching with the social partners on 30 May leave them free to "assess" the situation and...
(B2) It was John Monks, the general secretary of the ETUC, and Ernest-Antoine Seillière, head of Business Europe (the European employers' organization), who went to see the European Commissioner for Employment,…
(B2) "If I said yes to you today, my Parliament would throw me out." The Dutch minister's apostrophe was ironic. But firm. The Netherlands vetoed the proposal...
(B2) The questions raised by the application of the rules to the posting of workers do not date from the proposal for a directive on Services, nor even from the directive on the Posting of Workers...
(B2) A Europe that protects, the slogan is striking and seductive. But nothing has come to fulfill this premise for the moment (at least following Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to Brussels...
(B2) In Brussels, Nicolas Sarkozy roughly rehearsed his campaign speech. But while he didn't want to avoid any issues, he remained vague, very vague, to say the least...
(B2) The Commission's large press room was packed to the rafters. So much so that several journalists remained standing. A remark that did not escape Nicolas Sarkozy, who...
(B2) Contrary to its initial intentions, the Commission seems to have given up – at least for the time being – on improving European legislation on parental leave. This legislation…
(article published in Ouest-France, May 2007) European institutions have been thinking about this for several years. And the arrival of illegal immigrants, who are increasingly numerous on the southern coasts of…
(B2) The proposal for a directive on illegal employment presented by Commissioner Frattini on 16 May is puzzling. A company that posts a worker who is a national of a third country will be subject to...
(archives) "Europe has decided not to be just a consumer, but to control its technological destiny" explained in 2002, when the '15' gave the green light to Galileo,...
It seems a long time ago that, in front of a crowd of faithful, in the smallest rooms of the Ancienne Belgique, a renowned place in Brussels, David Bartholomé, alias Sharko, played the ventriloquist,…
(B2) The European Commission has chosen to postpone, without setting a date for the moment, the launch of the second phase of negotiations on the "reconciliation of family and professional life"….
(B2) The issue of the minimum wage has been a matter of debate in Germany for several months. But the grand coalition partners—CDU and SPD—appear close to an agreement. A…
(B2) On 10 May, the European Commission approved the public early retirement scheme for Greek telecoms. The Greek government's contribution to the voluntary early retirement scheme (VES) of the…
(B2) The European Parliament urged the European Commission to take swift action to ensure the proper implementation by Member States of all legislation concerning…
