Brussels, 02/10/2009 (Agence Europe) - After targeting its action on countries that already had deficits of more than 3% in 2008, the European Commission is now taking “preventive” measures against those that do not respect the reference threshold of the Stability and growth Pact in 2009. Next week, it will be examining the public finance situation of nine member states whose public deficits exceed 3% of GDP this year. This was confirmed on Thursday 1 October by Joaquín Almunia, who...