The European Parliament's S&D Group is determined to force the hand of the member states in order to strengthen clearly the draft update of the EU's trade defence instruments in the interinstitutional negotiations that were launched on Tuesday 21 March between the Parliament's negotiators, led by their rapporteur Christofer Fjellner (EPP, Sweden), and the Maltese Presidency of the EU Council.
"The member states have been wasting precious time and they have now missed the opportunity to push...