EU seeks deeper social rights to thwart populists

The EU unveiled a raft of proposals on Wednesday to improve the work-life balance for Europeans in an effort to fight accusations by populist parties that Brussels is too beholden to budget cuts and free markets.

The announcement comes at an especially sensitive moment in France, where pro-EU Emmanuel Macron will in the second round of the presidential election face the far right Marine Le Pen, who calls Brussels a destroyer of the welfare state.

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