A coalition of 68 organisations from 12 EU countries made up of civil society, trade union leaders, environmental activists and economists signed a letter on Wednesday 17 February calling for a “profound reform” of European fiscal rules.
Fearing that the post-Covid-19 EU “will fall back into the trap of the post-crisis of 2008: fiscal consolidation ‘at all costs’, without ambition for the climate and biodiversity”, the signatories call for a more flexible fiscal policy, which...