News update as of November 17, 2016

On the menu : the European Commission asks star performer Member States to relax consolidation in a bid to boost overall investment, Directive on temporary work does not only apply to temporary employment agencies (CJEU). IndustriALL Europe organizes a European action day at Caterpillar Headquarter in Geneva, retirement age lowered to 65 for men and 60 for women in Poland, Hungarian government proposes raising the minimum wage from between 15% to 25%. 
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EU/ The European Commission asks star performer Member States to relax consolidation in a bid to boost overall investment. Within the framework of its annual review of EU Member States’ draft national budgets, and in a bid to underpin the economic recovery, the European Commission has asked those member states with some degree of fiscal leeway, i.e. those within the public deficit targets, ‘to increase domestic spending and investment for the good of all’. For the first time since intensifying

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