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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9878

8 April 2009
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha council
EU moves towards compromise on single permit for third-country workers

Brussels, 07/04/2009 (Agence Europe) - European interior ministers were unable to agree, on Monday 6 April, on a draft directive establishing a single permit authorising third country nationals to reside and work in the territory of a member state. The text, presented in October 2007 by the European Commission, above all aims to grant migrant workers the same socio-economic rights as those enjoyed by member state nationals (EUROPE 9530). Discussions mainly stumbled when it came to the scope...

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