Following a heated debate on Tuesday (6 September) over common EU standards for protecting workers from sunlight, MEPs look set to water down the original proposal and leave it up to member states to decide if such measures are needed.
The vote on the directive, which has sparked lurid headlines across the EU with German papers speculating about Bavarian barmaids having to change their traditional dress to British papers mocking its consequences for bare-backed builders, will take plac...
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