A sizeable majority of the MEPs of the economic and financial affairs (ECON) committee voted in favour (48 to five with one abstention) of the draft report by Andreas Schwab (EPP, Germany) on the resources to be allocated to the national competition authorities (NCA) to ensure the smooth functioning of the single market.
The vote comes as no surprise, as the MEPs had previously expressed their approval of Schwab's text, when the amendments were examined on 21 November of last year (see...