“Unfortunately no deal tonight”, MEP Bas Eickhout (Greens/EFA, Dutch) posted with a certain disappointment on his Twitter account just before midnight on Wednesday, 19 July. And with good reason: negotiators from the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission had just finished their third meeting (trilogue) for interinstitutional negotiations—the first under the Spanish Presidency—on the European Commission’s proposal dated 5 April 2022...