Presenting his 2017 wish-list to the press in Paris on Monday 16 January, the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Pierre Moscovici, described the increasing level of inequality between the countries that make up the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) as a "worrying phenomenon" (our translation throughout).
The Commissioner said that Europe is healing from the crisis, but too slowly, going on to stress that although it fell below the level of 10% of the active population...