COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Social

EU Court of Justice rules against Hungary and Poland over posting of workers directive

Brussels, 08/12/2020 (Agence Europe)

On Tuesday 8 December, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) dismissed Hungary’s and Poland’s actions for annulment of Directive 2018/957 on the posting of workers (cases C-620/18 and C-626/18).

By way of reminder, these two Member States, who have been fiercely opposed since the beginning to the revision of the directive (see EUROPE B12110A8), believe that the new version goes against the spirit of European treaties, the freedom to provide services (Article 56 of the TFEU)...