24/06/2025 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday 24 June, the members of European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) approved by 33 votes to 11, with 8 abstentions, the draft report by Aurore Lalucq (S&D, French) on facilitating the financing of investments and reforms to boost European competitiveness and the creation of a capital markets union. All compromise amendments put to the vote on Tuesday were adopted by the MEPs on the ECON Committee (see EUROPE 13617/24). One of them notes that “joint borrowing” is “a viable option to ensure that the Union has sufficient resources to respond to acute Union-wide crises”, particularly in the areas of security and defence. The draft report can now be put to a vote at Parliament’s plenary session. (BD)