France and Germany on Friday refused to back a watered-down agreement on controversial EU rules covering app workers in the gig economy, European diplomats said.The European Union's objective was to bring in bloc-wide rules that supporters hoped would improve conditions for app workers in the gig economy by reclassifying some as employed.
A senior Ukrainian diplomat and foreign relations expert has described how the EU may change before Ukraine’s accession in an exclusive interview with NV Radio on Nov. 12.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union governments failed on Friday to give a decisive opinion on a proposal to extend by 10 years EU approval for the use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Bayer AG's Roundup weedkiller. A "qualified majority" of 15 countries representing at least 65% of the bloc's population had been required either to support or to block the proposal. The European Commission said in a statement there was no qualified majority either way in a vote by a committee of the EU's 27 members.