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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8567

21 October 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/employment council/social policy
"Early Retirement and Family Benefit" chapters of regulation on social security system co-ordination approved - consensus on European health insurance card

Luxembourg, 20/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Employment and Social Policy Council has approved two chapters of part III of regulation 1408/71 (co-ordination of social security systems), on early retirement and family benefit. The third chapter, on unemployment, has been deferred for approval at the Council of 1 and 2 December. One element of the dossier is causing Luxembourg some problems: the issue of unemployment benefit to be paid to a cross-border worker. The issue is a purely...

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