EU: Parliament and Council keep talking about the revision of the working time directive and focus on the opt-out

of the working time directive are still on. This is the message expressed by two press releases published by the Council of EU Ministers and the European Parliament after the meeting of April 15. Indeed, the threat of a total failure of this meeting was real. Although things haven’t really changed, the negotiators booked a double meeting and set the opt-out (possibility to individually derogate from the maximum 48-hour week) as their priority, which will unlock discussions on other issues....