Brussels, 24/11/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 24 November, the Court of Justice of the EU cancelled provisions of the regulation of the Council halving the rates by which the salaries of some 46,000 European civil servants were increased from July 2009 due to a “sudden and serious deterioration of the economic situation”. By unilaterally deciding on this revision, “without recourse to the specific procedure laid down for the staff regulations”, the Council exceeded its still...