Brussels, 09/01/2002 (Agence Europe) - Germany's Labour Ministry recently awarded a contract worth EUR 500 million to the Bonn-based company EFP, under the Equal initiative to coordinate the development of job creation schemes without conducting a public tender as demanded by European Union Law. This, however, is an imperative precondition when the amount of the tender exceeds the Community threshold of EUR 200,000. The contract awarded to EFP is therefore irregular, as Germany omitted to...