The European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) failed to overcome the left/right divide to adopt, on Wednesday 4 March, its guidelines for socio-economic policy in the European Union in 2020 (see EUROPE B12438A12).
Schematically, despite a last-chance meeting on Tuesday evening, the camp formed by the S&D, Greens/EFA and GUE/NGL groups and the one composed of the EPP and Renew Europe groups did not conciliate their positions, each side accusing the other of...