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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9875

3 April 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/social
Second conciliation meeting on working time breaks down - last chance meeting 20 or 21 April?

Brussels, 02/04/2009 (Agence Europe) - The second conciliation meeting on the working time directive in Brussels on Wednesday 1 April (10 hours long and finishing at 4 in the morning) ended in failure. No consensus between the European Parliament and the European Council could be found on the most sensitive points: the opt-out, standby and fines. Faced with such an impasse, the vice president of the EP and president of the EP delegation at the conciliation committee, Mechtild Rothe (PES,...

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