05/05/2020 (Agence Europe) – On Monday 4 May, ahead of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) meeting, the negotiating team working on the coordination of social security systems and the chair of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) wrote to employment ministers, urging them to resume negotiations on the legislation, which has been stalled since the end of 2019 (see EUROPE 12387/18). In their letter, they stated that “we also hope that, in the Council of the EU, Member States have not lost interest in the issue and that it has not been forgotten amidst preparations for the post-crisis recovery strategy”. The legislation has been the subject of difficult inter-institutional negotiations since the provisional agreement reached between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU was rejected by Member States in early 2019 (see EUROPE 12225/15). (PH)