Negotiators from the European Parliament, led by Christophe Hansen, and the EU Council, assisted by the Commission, are not at the end of their ordeal to reach agreement on the recast of the 1998 Drinking Water Directive, in response to the European Citizens' Initiative Right2Water.
The EU Council Presidency informed the National Ambassadors to the EU (Coreper) on Friday 22 November that the third trilogue negotiating meeting, which took place on 19 November, was long, difficult and, as...