Initiated by Ecuador and South Africa in 2014, an open-ended working group mandated by the UN Council on Human Rights started exploring grounds for a possible UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights. It may provide the first interna- tional legally binding rules for businesses. In fall 2017, the third working group session took place in Geneva... The sef: Policy Lunch, co-hosted by the Development and Peace Foundation and CIDSE – the International Al- liance of Catholic Development Agencies, took place on 20 November 2017. It looked at the negotiations from an European angle, which sparked considerable inter- est in the Brussels community. The European institu- tions have not been speaking with one voice at the negotiations so far. What course did the discussions in Geneva take? Was there substantial progress? And how did the EU present itself in Geneva?