Brussels, 08/03/2013 (Agence Europe) - By a wide majority on Thursday 7 March, the Swedish parliament ratified the treaty to boost budget discipline, the Budget Pact, agreed upon by all EU member states apart from the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic in March 2012. Sweden is the nineteenth nation to ratify the pact, leaving only Belgium, Hungary, Bulgaria, Malta, the Netherlands and Poland yet to do so.
The pact came into force in January 2013 (see EUROPE 10758). It requires countries...