EU lawmakers and member states remain deadlocked over their choice of the next European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) – the privacy watchdog of the EU institutions - after negotiations on Thursday ended in stalemate, according to a source familiar with the process.
The mandate of the current EDPS, Poland’s Wojciech Wiewiórowski, expired in early December, but lawmakers and member states failed to agree on a successor, with each backing different candidates from four contenders shortlisted by the European Commission following hearings in January.
