After a long day of negotiations on Thursday 30 March, the Swedish Presidency of the EU Council was unable to reach a provisional agreement with the European Parliament on the ‘Chips Act’. Negotiators came close to a conclusion during almost 9 hours of exchanges, but finally had to arrange a fourth interinstitutional negotiation meeting (‘trilogue’).
While progress was made on several issues in the regulation, the thorny issue of the budget for the ‘Chips for Europe’ initiative...