EU: the working time and temporary work draft directives as adopted by the Council of Ministers

After a commentary in article N° 080843, we are now publishing the texts, in English, of the consolidated compromises for which EU Labor Ministers signed a political agreement at the EU Council of Ministers on June 9. The joint declaration sent by Belgium, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Hungary, and the declaration made by France, are attached to this article. (Ref. 080484)
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Dispatch No. 08042

detailed the two political agreements, and this dispatch publishes the final version. These two texts still need to be formally adopted within the Council (common position), and to go to the European Parliament for a second reading.

The attached declarations. In one declaration, Belgium, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Hungary explain why they didn’t support the text. In the second, France wanted to express publicly its intention not to use the possibility, planned in the curren

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