The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in her first State of the Union address to the European Parliament on Wednesday 16 September, once again emphasised that an initiative being prepared to guarantee a decent minimum wage at a national level would be implemented in accordance with national norms and the prerogatives of the social partners.
The President, a former German Federal Minister for Social Affairs, did not hesitate to denounce the “wage dumping” that is...