On Wednesday 27 November, Member States’ ambassadors to the EU (Coreper) were unable to approve the draft political agreement (general approach) of the Hungarian Presidency of the EU Council on the proposal for a directive on the working conditions of trainees, owing to the emergence of a blocking minority of Member States.
While the Presidency still intends, on 2 December, to ask employment and social affairs ministers (EPSCO Council) to adopt a position on this draft general approach,...