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MOSCOVICI AND SANT ON BOLSTERING INVESTMENT IN THE EUROZONE

European Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said that the European Commission needs to analyse how the fiscal capacity in EU countries can be developed to create private and public investments. Moscovici was reacting to the Maltese Europarliamentarian’s comments on whether the positions adopted by the European Commission reflect the good of the Eurozone as a whole, or

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Question posed to Moscovici, Thyssen, Dombrovskis 02.12.2014

Question: Thank you Madame Chairman. 70% of European SMEs do business only in their national markets. Investment programmes at EU level do not really effect their operating environment certainly not in the short to medium term. What they need is the stimulus of expansion of the national markets over the short term. Yet fiscal consolidation

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QUESTIONS to Commissioner Pierre Moscovici: ECON, O2 DECEMBER 2014

QUESTIONS: a) Mr Commissioner, On the one hand, we state that Europe needs to reverse the decline of investment that has happened in recent years and needs to bolster both public and private investment. Meanwhile, the two pack and six pack arrangements focus on the need to curtail budget deficits and eventually reach a balance

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SANT TELLS EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT NOT THE TIME FOR INCREASING LOAN CHARGES

Labour MEP Alfred Sant warned that now is not the time for increasing loan charges or for banks to reduce lending. In an explanation of vote delivered during the last plenary meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, the Maltese Europarliamentarian declared that in the changes being introduced to implement the European Banking Union, greater

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TLIET ĠRAJJIET

Din il-ġimgħa fil-Parlament Ewropew imlaqqa’ fi Strasburgu kienet immarkata minn tliet ġrajjiet interessanti — il-wasla ta’ Papa Franġisku għal żjara ta’ erba’ sigħat fil-belt; it-tħabbira tal-President tal-Kummissjoni Ewropea Jean Claude Juncker ta’ pjan ġdid ta’ investiment fl-Unjoni Ewropea biex iqajjem l-ekonomiji tal-pajjiżi membri li jinsabu staġnati; u l-għoti tal-premju Sakharov lit-tabib Denis Mukwege. B’sorpriża għalija,

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SANT SAYS OUTSIDERS CANNOT BRING PEACE IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

Alfred Sant told the European Parliament that declarations by outsiders such as Europeans, Americans, Russians and jihadists cannot make peace happen in Israel and Palestine. Only the Israelis and Palestinians can do it. Yet, developments in the area are having a powerful impact on the world we live in. Furthermore, Dr Sant said that on