Brussels, 09/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - European Union permanent representatives were able, on 23 December, to reach qualified majority on the draft “sanctions” directive, which provides for harmonisation of certain obligations imposed on employers and sanctions taken against them to combat illegal work by third country nationals. If the European Parliament adopts the text in codecision in the exact form of the compromise negotiated in Council, the proposal will then be adopted at first...