EU: new report on the debate on the draft “intra-corporate transfer” and “seasonal workers” directives

to vote to allow their rapporteurs to negotiate, with the Council of EU Ministers, the draft directives on the intra-corporate transfer of third-country nationals and on the entry and residence of third-country seasonal workers, with the aim of reaching a compromise after the first reading. Here is a report on the debate over these two bills, which is dominated by unions’ fear of social dumping and governments’ fear of unchecked immigration. (Ref. 110760)

The Commission’s vote in January 2