The inter-institutional negotiations between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU continued in Strasbourg late into the night of Tuesday 16 May on the legislative proposal to revitalise the market for securitised financial products (see EUROPE 11787).
Although no deal was concluded, progress was made in this fifth trialogue session. “We came very close to an agreement”, a spokesperson of the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU told us on Wednesday 17 May.
A major...