MEPs of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Committee (ECON) and 'Budgets' Committee (BUDG) voted (59 votes in favour, 25 against, 0 abstentions) on Wednesday 20 February in favour of a draft report by Pedro Silva Pereira (S&D, Portugal) and Vladimír Maňka (S&D, Slovakia) on the creation of a European Monetary Fund (EMF), advocating democratisation and inclusion in the EU legal framework of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM).
This vote echoes the European Commission's...