ECB must intervene directly to help SMEs
17/04/2013
The European Parliament adopted today the report assessing the ECB activities for 2011. By endorsing an ALDE amendment, Parliament called upon the Central bank to directly intervene in helping SMEs against the current and serious...
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Council approval of Yves Mersch appointment to ECB executive an affront to Parliament
23/11/2012
Commenting on the decision taken last night during the European Council meeting in Brussels, to confirm the nomination of Luxembourg central banker, Yves Mersch, as a member of the European Central Bank's executive board, ...
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Council must not ignore Parliament and absence of women on ECB board
05/11/2012
Guy Verhofstadt, ALDE group leader, today is maintaining the political pressure on Council to rectify the embarrassing absence of women at the top of the governing bodies of the European Central Bank as ministers attempt to seal...
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Council must not ignore Parliament and absence of women on ECB board
01/11/2012
Guy Verhofstadt, ALDE group leader, today is maintaining the political pressure on Council to rectify the embarrassing absence of women at the top of the governing bodies of the European Central Bank as ministers attempt to seal...
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Verhofstadt: EPP sells Parliament short by undermining democratic vote on Mersch nomination
25/10/2012
Reacting to the statement issued today by the EPP that the Council should proceed with the appointment of Mr Mersch, despite a negative opinion by the Parliament, Guy Verhofstadt, president of the ALDE group, said:
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Verhofstadt on ECB gender balance: "Van Rompuy fails to address concerns"
23/10/2012
Following last night's vote in Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee, which resulted in a negative recommendation on the candidature of Yves Mersch for the vacant position on the ECB's executive board, Herman van...
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Verhofstadt: ECB's bond-buying plan won't solve the crisis alone
06/09/2012
Following today's ECB Governing Council meeting, President Draghi officially unveiled the new programme to help struggling Member States from the debt crisis - a plan that pledges unlimited and sterilized bond-buying under strict...
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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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