UEFA says FIFA’s apology does not address the conditions needed to call off its threat to boycott competitions. The European governing body maintains that its loss of confidence in FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s leadership remains unresolved following the controversy around FIFA’s failed FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal. According to UEFA, FIFA acknowledged mistakes and held a crisis meeting in Morocco, where it reaffirmed support for Infantino. However, UEFA states that FIFA’s public backing “changes nothing” and does not provide sufficient certainty that events like those of the past nine days will not recur. Last week, UEFA’s 55 member associations agreed to boycott FIFA-run tournaments if Infantino did not step back from the privately funded FFE plan, and while the scheme was scrapped last Friday, UEFA says the terms required to avoid a boycott still have not been met. UEFA’s position is presented as a continued escalation of tensions between European football’s governing body and FIFA, centered on governance concerns and confidence in Infantino rather than on the immediate scrapping of the FFE proposal.