THE FIGHT GOES ON.

• Position: Working Time Directive - Brief article

While the European Parliament's plenary was voting in second reading on the Working Time Directive, on 17 December in Strasbourg, the ministers attending the Employment and Social Affairs Council were discussing the very same issue as an information point'. It was around lunchtime when news broke of the Parliament's overwhelming vote on the directive. Returning from lunch, the ministers continued their session beyond Europolitics' press deadline.

Accordingly, we will cover the official reactions to the Parliament's plenary vote in detail in our next edition. Late on 17 December, the current chairman of the Council, French Minister of Labour Xavier Bertrand, would onyl say that the best next step would now be to go...