Brussels-Belgium - 01 December 2006---European Ministers for Employment / Labour meet at EU-Council level; here, Gerd ANDRES (le), Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Labour and Social Affairs of Germany, with Vladmir SPIDLA (ri), European Comissioner in charge of Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities; Nikolaus VAN DER PAS (2.ri), Director-General at the EC of DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, and Katharina VON SCHNURBEIN (2.le), spokeswoman of Commissioner Spidla, watching the scene---Photo: Horst Wagner/eup-images