A New Deal for Europe?

We’ve previously covered the work of the European Parliament’s Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (CRIS Committee) on this blog and indeed the Chairman of the Committee, Dr Wolf Klinz, visited the IIEA in October to discuss its work.

Yesterday its Rapporteur, Pervenche Beres, presented her final report to the Parliament. A resolution backing the report was adopted with 434 votes in favour, 128 against and 33 abstentions.

The resolution is non-legislative but nonetheless is a strong demonstration of the European Parliament’s hopes for radical action to boost European competitiveness, employment, innovation and growth in the years ahead.