On Friday 15 February, the permanent representatives of the Member States were unable to agree on resuming work in trilogue with the European Parliament on two dossiers in the ‘asylum’ package, namely the dossier on “resettlement” of refugees in the EU and the Eurodac database of fingerprints of asylum seekers, both revised in 2016 by the Commission (see EUROPE 12160).
While formal work stopped last June on these two texts in the ‘asylum’ package (as well as on the dossiers on...