On Thursday 11 January, the co-president of the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, Philippe Lamberts, strongly criticised the compromises reached last December, both in Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and in the Ecofin Council (see EUROPE B13322A12).
“We have the choice between a very bad solution [that of the Council of the EU] and a bad solution [that of the European Parliament]”, he told a few journalists. In his view, “the EU is sleepwalking...