The European ministers responsible for social affairs debated, on Monday 12 June, the horizontal directive on equal treatment at the EU ‘Employment and Social Affairs’ Council (EPSCO). A debate called for by the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU in an attempt to break the deadlock on this issue, which has been blocked since 2008, but with limited success, as positions between Member States continued to diverge at the end of the meeting (see EUROPE B13190A2).
Contrasting...