It was late into the night sometime between Wednesday 6 and early on Thursday 7 February, and after a lengthy struggle, that the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union reached an agreement on the ‘working conditions’ directive, an agreement that was less ambitious than the initial proposal and rather different from the European Parliament’s position defended by the rapporteur, Enrique Calvet Chambon (ALDE, Spain).
"We have just reached a provisional political...