On Monday 4 March, the European Parliament’s rapporteur on the directive on long-term resident status for third-country nationals, Germany’s Damian Boeselager (Greens/EFA), lamented that the EU Council has, it seems, definitively blocked the revision of this directive, presented in 2022 (see EUROPE B12940A8).
Following an exchange last week among the Member States’ ambassadors to the EU, the Belgian Presidency reportedly concluded that it would not be able to reach an agreement with...