Plan to link wages across EU states

PROPOSALS that would see wage increases linked to productivity and to incomes of other trading partners are expected to land on the desks of the EU’s 27 prime ministers over the weekend.

The list of up to eight proposals to improve countries’ competitiveness come on foot of German demands for more rigorous controls on eurozone economies in particular.

They have been drawn up by European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and EU president Herman Von Rompuy after consultation with member states over the past week.