Brussels, 16/12/2008 (Agence Europe) - In Strasbourg on Tuesday 16 December, the European Parliament adopted, on first reading, the compromise text negotiated with the other Community institutions on the recast directive on European Works Councils. The report by Philip Bushill-Matthews (EPP-ED, UK) on this co-decision issue, was adopted by the comfortable majority of 411 votes to 44, with 181 abstentions. Among the aims of the recast directive, proposed by the Commission in July, is...