Policing debt - Food label battle - 2014 EU elections: Europe Today

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	Policing debt - Food label battle - 2014 EU elections: Europe Today The European parliament backs tougher rules for the EU to police the debt of its member states twurl.nl The parliament backs plans for tighter rules on food labelling twurl.nl Federalists want next EU chief chosen from elected MEPs www.euractiv.com Goodmorning from Brussels. I'm Raymond Frenken with a quick update of today's top EU policy stories. After 4 ½ hour of voting and 770 of compromises, members of the European parliament late on Tuesday gave their backing to a package of reforms that will beef up the EU's powers to police debts of its member states in a bid to tackle the aftermath of the sovereign debt crisis. The parliament's economic affairs committee fought its way through 2000 amendments to new rules on economic governance, originally authored by the European Commission and a task-force set up by Council President Herman Van Rompuy. The six-pack of economic reforms aims to strengthen the EU's Stability and Growth Pact and to prevent the kinds of budget gaps currently sinking the euro. EPP rapporteur Corien Wortmann. Quote The committee just about managed to secure a majority. Wortman said on twitter that she regrets that the Social Democrats, and the Greens refused to back many key reforms, and said it shows that these parties are not learning from the crisis. Also in the parliament, MEPs have backed the mandatory inclusion of information on country-of-origin and transfats on food labels. This amid indications of a looming battle with member states and <b>...</b>	From: EUXTV Views: 308 8 ratings
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