13/11/2019 (Agence Europe) – The European Parliament and the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU made very little progress on the Regulation on the coordination of social security systems on Monday evening, 11 November. They agreed to meet again, next Monday 18 November, to continue discussing the three remaining points (see EUROPE 12366/23): - social benefits for frontier workers (Parliament would like specific treatment, whereas the new EU Council mandate proposes a return to 6 months); - the various criteria related to pluriactivity (the EU Council would like to remove the criterion introducing working time); - exemption from prior notification in the event of secondment. Parliament expects more flexibility from the EU Council and takes a negative view of the Council's return to positions close to those of its general approach of June 2018 (see EUROPE 12046/38). (PH)