A press release from the ECR Group on Thursday 17 November on the interinstitutional talks on the firearms directive says that the talks are on track for agreement at the next political meeting on 5 December, but this statement was rejected by a number of sources, with one parliamentary source seeing it as a manoeuvre by the rapporteur, Vicky Ford (ECR, United Kingdom) to put pressure on the Council of the EU.
Ford said progress had been made on a number of issues at the recent trilogue...