23/02/2017 (Agence Europe) – The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) welcomes the opinion of the European Commission calling for a slightly expansionary budgetary orientation at Eurozone level, in an opinion adopted on Wednesday 22 February (see EUROPE 11682). The Committee believes that public investment should not, under certain conditions, be taken into account with regard to calculating the deficit targets under the European budgetary rules. The Committee went on to take a...