The EU Council begins work on the Directive on fair minimum wages in the EU. A first debate in the working party on 6 November and another in the presence of the Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights in the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper I) on Wednesday 11 November, revealed the scepticism of several national delegations as to the relevance of the legal basis chosen by the European Commission.
At the meeting of the working party, several delegations, including Denmark,...