There is still great uncertainty about the position that the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) will adopt on Wednesday 4 March when it votes on the Lalucq draft report on the socio-economic policies that Member States should pursue in 2020 as part of the ‘European Semester’ budget process.
A coordinators’ meeting amongst the main political groups was to take place on the evening of Tuesday 3 March, which some experts described as “the last...