European redemption fund to form part of negotiations on 2-pack
12/03/2012
After last year's adoption of a strengthened Stability and Growth Pact, also known as the 6-pack on economic governance, the Commission proposed two further Regulations to enhance the coordination and surveillance of budgetary...
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Breaking Europe's glass ceilings on gender balance
05/03/2012
Following today's announcement by Viviane Reding that the European Commission will be "weighing options to break the ‛glass ceiling’ for women on company boards", ALDE MEPs are supporting the Commission to take bold actions to...
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Break all-male dominance of ECB leadership
29/02/2012
Tomorrow EU Finance Ministers, after an initial delay, may decide on the replacement of Mr Jose Manuel Gonzalez-Paramo on the Executive Board of the ECB. There is not a single woman on the Executive Board, nor on the Governing...
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ECB alone cannot solve financial crisis
01/12/2011
Following a debate with the new European Central Bank President, Mario Draghi today, the European Parliament voted on a report assessing the activities of the ECB in 2010. Given the fast evolving developments in the eurozone...
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Verhofstadt: Lessons still not learned from post Lehman bank crisis
05/10/2011
After months of repeated alarms of another crisis affecting the European financial sector, EU Ministers of Finance indicated yesterday in Luxembourg that a new bank rescue plan was on the way through a national coordinated...
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ALDE supports Mario Draghi as next ECB President
15/06/2011
The European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON) today voted to confirm Mario Draghi to succeed Jean-Claude Trichet as President of the ECB and President of the ESRB, next November.
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Verhofstadt calls for European Parliament to investigate Greek debt crisis
23/02/2010
"It is important, for the credibility of the Eurozone, that we fully understand the origins of the current Greek debt crisis and learn the lessons for the future management of the Stability and Growth Pact," said Guy Verhofstadt...
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