On Thursday 14 September, MEPs debated the working conditions of firefighters in the EU, after a summer marked by a series of disasters.
Led by the chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, Dragoș Pîslaru, they asked the Commission, in an oral question, to look into the lack of a statute for volunteer firefighters, the difficulty for professional firefighters of getting paid overtime and taking their statutory rest periods. They called on the...