Brussels, 03/12/2009 (Agence Europe) - Around a dozen member states are still challenging the European Commission proposal for a 3.7% increase in European civil servants' salaries and pensions between summer 2008 and summer 2009. At the COREPER (Committee of Member States' Permanent Representatives to the EU) meeting on Wednesday 2 December, the so-called “net contributor countries” to the EU budget, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Austria, along with those countries which have...