EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Economy

European Parliament adopts position on economic policy coordination in first since May 2019 European elections

Brussels, 11/03/2021 (Agence Europe)

For the first time since the European elections in May 2019, on Thursday 11 March, the European Parliament approved a position on economic policy coordination within the budgetary process of the ‘European Semester’.

The agreed text is based on the ‘Győri’ draft report that was adopted last week (see EUROPE B12671A5), plus all of the compromise amendments of the EPP and S&D groups, which were adopted on Wednesday (see EUROPE B12674A7).

One of these amendments completes the part of...