Luxembourg has expressed strong reservations about the Single Market Emergency Instrument (SMEI) in a response sent to the Czech Presidency of the EU Council and seen by EUROPE on Wednesday 9 November.
“The SMEI proposal raises substantive concerns with respect to its relevance, its European added value and the appropriateness of its Single Market legal basis (Article 114 TFEU)”, says Luxembourg, who had already shown deep scepticism during the September Competitiveness Council (see...