Euro faces EFSF parliament votes in Slovenia, Finland, Germany, SixPack vote in Strasbourg

Key parliament votes on the European Financial Stability fund are scheduled for the coming week in Slovenia, Finland and Germany, while the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday will vote [Read more...]

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Martin Schulz: Commission should have greater economic governance in the eurozone

Speaking before the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Martin Schulz MEP (Germany), leader of the opposition Socialists & Democrats (S&D), backed the EPP on the issue, saying the European [Read more...]

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Rebecca Harms: Mr Barroso, I don’t think you are the man who can show the way forward

Speaking before the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Rebecca Harms MEP (Germany), co-leader of the Greens/European Free Alliance group in the Parliament, said efforts to save the euro would [Read more...]

Nigel Farage: You have killed democracy in Greece

Speaking before the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Nigel Farage, president of the EFD Group, plead Mr Barroso to help Greece to get “their currency back and reschedule their [Read more...]

Joseph Daul: This European crisis requires a European and not just a national response

Speaking before the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Joseph Daul, a French MEP who leads the European Parliament’s largest political group, the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), echoed Barroso’s [Read more...]

Guy Verhofstadt: European bond market is completely blocked

Guy Verhofstadt, former Belgian prime minister and now president of the liberal ALDE group in the European Parliament, on Wednesday underlined the need for close EU monitoring of the government [Read more...]

Barroso vows to present ‘options’ on euro bonds soon

The European Commission will present options soon for the introduction of euro area bonds, its president José Manuel Barroso said on Wednesday (14 September), urging a decisive move towards greater [Read more...]