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Elderly people - subject to age discrimination (Photo: EUobserver)

Member states in the dock over anti-discrimination laws

by Mark Beunderman, Brussels,

The European Commission has announced legal steps against six member states which have failed to adopt two key EU anti-discrimination laws - Germany being the worst offender.

The EU executive today (19 July) announced it will take Austria, Germany, Finland, Greece, Belgium and Luxembourg to the European Court of Justice for not fully implementing the EU racial equality directive and the so-called "employment framework directive" which deals with discrimination at work.

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Elderly people - subject to age discrimination (Photo: EUobserver)

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