With 2 days to go until the informal deadline of Friday 9 February for reaching an Interinstitutional Agreement on the reform of the Stability Pact, the positions of the representatives of the European Parliament and the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union remain far apart.
New trilogue negotiations took place on Wednesday 7 February in Strasbourg, but they do not appear to have resulted in any real progress. So much so that the chairwoman of the European...