Brussels, 19/11/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 19 November, the Court of Justice of the EU ruled (cases C-63, C-66 and C-196/12) that the Council was acting within its rights to invoke the exemption clause of the European staff regulations and to reject the proposal of the European Commission, based on the automatic “adaptation method” of officials' salaries, which was in force until 2012, to increase officials' salaries by 1.7% in 2011. Under the ruling, the Commission is obliged to...