The question of European action to tackle the issue of excessive government indebtedness was central to a conference hosted on Tuesday 7 March by the GUE/NGL group at the European Parliament.
"In recent times, the debate (on government debt: Ed)has moved on a bit. People are realising that the problem is a European one", said Dimitrios Papadimoulis (GUE/NGL, Greece) (our translation). The chair of the GUE/NGL the group, Germany's Gabriele Zimmer, regretted the fact that on this issue,...