Inter-institutional negotiations on the proposal for a strengthened EU civil protection mechanism will have to continue, said the chairwoman of the European Parliament's environment committee, Romania's Adina-Ioana Vălean (EPP), on Wednesday 10 October, indicating that a compromise effort would have to be made by the Council to successfully complete the dossier by the end of the year, as the Austrian Presidency wishes.
Deep divisions between the Council's and Parliament's positions...