Brussels, 08/12/2014 (Agence Europe) - Senior MEPs on the European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee have strongly rejected the Basel Committee's criticisms of the CRD IV Directive's measures to encourage lending to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The chair of the EP's economic and monetary affairs committee, Roberto Gualtieri (S&D, Italy), and the speakers of various political groups - Burkhard Balz of Germany for the EPP, Elisa Ferreira of Portugal for the...