Judgment_paragraph 32 · Ender Balkaya v Kiesel Abbruch- und Recycling Technik GmbH (C-229/14)

32In order to reply to this question, it must be recalled, first of all, that by harmonising the rules applicable to collective redundancies, the EU legislature intended both to ensure comparable protection for workers’ rights in the different Member States and to harmonise the costs which such protective rules entail for European Union undertakings (see, inter alia, judgments in Commission v Portugal, C‑55/02, EU:C:2004:605, paragraph 48, and Commission v Italy, C‑596/12, EU:C:2014:77, paragraph 16).