16/03/2017 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 16 March in Strasbourg, the Conference of Presidents of the political groups at the European Parliament ultimately failed to tackle the question of steering through the own initiative report for the draft directive on the protection of whistleblowers. This is because no amiable agreement on it was forthcoming at the level of the Presidents of the ALDE and S&D groups, Guy Verhofstadt (Belgium) and Gianni Pittella (Italy) respectively or at the level...