The European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) adopted its position on Monday 21 June (38 votes in favour, 6 against, 12 abstentions) on the European economic governance framework in the light of the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, approving all the compromise amendments to the draft report by Margarida Marques (see EUROPE B12677A11).
MEPs welcome the use of the general escape clause in the Stability and Growth Pact in spring 2020, an unprecedented...