Member States reportedly failed, during an EU Council Working Party on Social Questions on 29 March, to support Sweden’s latest proposals on reforming Regulation 883/2004 on the rules for coordinating social security schemes after a blocking minority of 13 Member States formed, an EU source reported on Tuesday 4 April (see EUROPE 13146/17).
New proposals are therefore expected from this group of countries.
However, other sources have reported constructive discussions and the Swedish Presidency of the EU Council is said to be intending to submit the dossier to the Member States at the end of April or beginning of May for a political exchange.
In its last text, the Presidency had slightly modified the fields relating to: - pluriactivity (situations in which a person carries out simultaneously or alternately, for the same employer or for different employers, one or more different activities in two or more Member States); - prior notification (of postings); - unemployment benefits paid to cross-border workers. These three points were in fact the main reasons for the failure of the EU Council at the end of 2021.
EUROPE will continue to follow this story. (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)