EU states spoke out in favor of new requirements in order to better prevent bogus self-employment. Negotiators from the EU states and Parliament had actually already agreed on a compromise twice.
But the deals fell through again and further discussions were required. Berlin abstained from the decision because there are different views on the project. FDP representatives in particular spoke out against the law. According to the dpa news agency, the deputy federal chairman Johannes Vogel described the proposed platform rules as “an attack on all self-employed people in Europe”