A few days before the next session of interinstitutional negotiations ('trilogue') on the social and market aspects of the 'mobility I' package, European Parliament negotiators were still waiting, on Thursday 5 December, for a compromise proposal from the European Commission on the thorny issue of driving and resting time for lorry drivers, said MEP Vera Tax (S&D, Netherlands), shadow rapporteur on this issue, at a restricted breakfast with the press.
According to Ms Tax, twenty political...