Brussels, 19/02/2013 (Agence Europe) -During a visit to the European Parliament on Tuesday 19 February, Peer Steinbrück, an SPD candidate in the German general elections in September, called for France to be given more time to meet its budget targets.
If the French deficit is 3.2% or 3.4% of GDP in 2013, then France should be given flexibility in the timing for bringing its public deficit back below the 3% cut-off point, said Steinbrück, and similar flexibility in interpreting the...