The French Presidency must pass the baton to the Czech Presidency in the EU Council on the revision of the regulation on the coordination of social security schemes. No progress has been made there due to “technical complexities” and “major differences” between the European Parliament and the EU Council “both on the question of applicable legislation and that of unemployment”, explained the French Minister of Labour, Olivier Dussopt, in Luxembourg on Thursday 16 June. “The conditions are not right for a return to trilogue”, the Minister summarised, hoping that the next Presidencies will be able to reboot this dossier, which saw a rebound under the Slovenian Presidency before being rejected again (see EUROPE 12859/10). Although it had set itself the objective of continuing the work (see EUROPE 12911/30), the French Presidency did not carry out any real technical work on this dossier, as it quickly became aware of the impasse. The Commission regrets “that Member States were not in a position to support the provisional agreement reached in the December trilogue” but it “has no intention of withdrawing the text”, Commissioner Nicolas Schmit told EUROPE. “We remain fully committed to this file and to finding a solution acceptable to the three institutions”. (SP)