Europe’s economic response to the Covid-19 pandemic must not make the same mistakes as it did during the 2008 financial crisis, say MEPs in two draft reports, one on economic policies and the other on social policies in the euro area, put to the vote at the European Parliament’s plenary session on the evening of Wednesday 21 October.
Satisfied that the European Parliament has finally made an announcement on the ‘European Semester’ budgetary process, Joachim Schuster (S&D, Germany),...