Brussels, 21/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 20 March, the Council of Ministers of the EU formally requested an examination of whether the conditions have been met to apply the provisions of the exception clause of Article 10 of annex XI of the Staff Regulations with regard to the remuneration and pensions of EU civil servants for 2012. Readers may recall that in its 2010 ruling, the Court of Justice of the EU stated that this clause is the only option to depart from the traditional...