On Wednesday 14 May, the MEPs, meeting in plenary, broadly approved (544 votes to 141 and two abstentions) the consensual own-initiative report by Hugues Bayet (S&D, Belgium) on the 'Annual growth review' document, which kicks off the European semester budgetary process.
This text, which received a convincing majority at the European Parliament's economic and financial affairs committee on 21 February (see EUROPE 11967), seeks to strike a balance between those in favour of compliance with...