EU seeks to improve maximum workweek rules, leave hard-won UK opt ...
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The European Union head office this week proposed redefining how working hours are counted under the bloc&#39;s maximum 48-hour workweek law and stopping companies in Britain from abusing an &quot;opt-out&quot; to the law.
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Incoming European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso on Wednesday urged the EU to &quot;get back to work&quot;, ahead of a vote expected to end an unprecedented limbo and let him take office three weeks late.
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France&#39;s prime minister has announced plans to let workers negotiate workweeks that exceed the current 35-hour limit. Jean-Pierre Raffarin also vowed to cut the current 9.9 percent unemployment rate by a 0.1
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INDUSTRY is gearing up for a push to reform the European Union&#39;s sluggish markets and to boost the skills of Britain&#39;s workforce as hundreds of thousands of jobs are sucked away to Asia or Eastern Europe.
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Gordon Brown has told his European counterparts that the British budget rebate remains &quot;fully justified&quot;. Attending a meeting of EU finance ministers on Tuesday, the chancellor sought to head off French demands
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Britain needs to stop implementing EU business rules more strictly than its competitors, say the Tories.
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The European Commission said it had adopted a plan to adapt eurozone rules intended to control budget deficits in order to improve the way they work and their credibility.
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Plans to revamp the euro&#39;s battered rulebook won key backing yesterday, as the European Commission bowed to the inevitable and called for more flexible implementation of the single currency&#39;s widely flouted rules.
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STRASBOURG  - Incoming European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso urged the EU to &quot;get back to work&quot;, ahead of a vote expected to end an unprecedented limbo and let him take office three weeks late.
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The European Union's head office was set to approve proposals Friday to inject more flexibility into the oft-flouted budget rules behind the euro.
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European leaders will seek to reassure sceptical voters at a summit starting on Thursday by toughening policy on enlargement of the European Union, without though slamming the door on a queue of aspiring ...Comment
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As Europe&#39;s workers take a few weeks of  holiday this summer, their American colleagues will be lucky to  get a few days off work, says a report published by the  European Trade Union Institute.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to go further in easing France's maximum 35-hour working week.
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EU leaders say they should turn to new priorities now that they have agreed on institutional reforms.
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As Europe's workers take a few weeks of holiday this summer, their American colleagues will be lucky to get a few days off work, says a report published by the European Trade Union Institute.
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The European Union has taken a step closer to tough new chemicals rules after EU lawmakers and governments hammered out the details of one of Europe's most ambitious and disputed legislative packages in years.
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European Union governments may impose tougher conditions on entry talks with Turkey in response to demands by France, Austria and Cyprus, a draft EU compromise shows.