On Thursday 13 July, the European Commission decided to send Belgium to the European Court of Justice for incomplete transposition into its legal system of EU rules on workers from outside the EU.
These rules, laid down in the EU Directive on a single permit (Directive 2011/98/EU) allow workers from outside the EU to obtain work and residence permits using a single procedure and also lay down a common grounding of rights relating to working conditions, retirement, social security and access...