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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9605

20 February 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/economy
Five stability and convergence programmes are assessed

Brussels, 19/02/2008 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 19 February, the Commission examined a new series of stability and convergence programmes. All that now remains is to tackle those of Belgium and Poland. For this last assessment, the Commission is encouraging Greece to speed up improvements to its public finances to attain its medium term objective (MTO) by 2010. In a less favourable context, Ireland is invited to safeguard budgetary balance and Lithuania, for which results may be less good...

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