The European finance ministers failed, on Friday 8 December, to reach a political agreement in principle on the reform of European fiscal rules, but they claim to have made sufficient progress on Thursday night to hope to be able to conclude the dossier before the end of the year.
“We’re almost there. We hope to finalise this in the next coming days”, said the Spanish minister, Nadia Calviño, stating that “if necessary, we’ll convene an extraordinary meeting” of ministers...