The political groups of the European Parliament have once again, and virtually unanimously, rejected any suspension of the European cohesion funds against Spain and Portugal on the grounds of their failure to do enough to comply with the European budgetary rules between 2013 and 2015.
"The outcome of this procedure can only be no suspension", said Lambert van Nistelrooij (EPP, Netherlands), during the second round of structural dialogue at the European Parliament on the suspension of the...