By the end of the day on Thursday 11 April, the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union had still not succeeded in convincing the Member States, and Sweden in particular, to adopt a new version of the ‘La Hulpe Declaration’ on the future of European social policies, after noting that the silence procedure had broken down.
The Presidency submitted a new compromise on 10 April, slightly modifying the language on public procurement and now calling for an evaluation of the...