. While the European Union (EU) needs rules to provide it with legal certainty and predictability, as well as a level playing … Germany's EU presidency. The first Council Conclusions on the topic have already been adopted, at the ministerial session of … 27 February 2020. This debate is important because it will determine the EU's role in the coming years. …

current strategic framework for supporting compliance - via EU policies over the past two decades, with a new Strategic … literature reveals some gaps between the policy rhetoric and the practice at both EU and Member State levels. …

–Life Balance Directive 2019 – the key EU legal instrument that seeks to address the labour market disadvantages of those with …