07/12/2020 (Agence Europe) – Hopes of reaching an agreement between the European Parliament and the EU Council on the Regulation on the coordination of social security systems (see EUROPE 12616/18) have once again been dashed. The co-legislators reportedly made no progress on Monday 7 December on the issue of prior notification before a worker is sent, although it is now the fifteenth interinstitutional meeting. However, the German EU Council Presidency had hoped for an agreement and had included the topic for the next meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives I (Coreper I) on Wednesday, 9 December. The issues of export of unemployment benefits for frontier workers and pluriactivity were reportedly not addressed. Apparently, no date for a future interinstitutional meeting was set. The dossier will certainly be passed on to the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU, which will take over in the first half of 2021. (PH)