The EU's rules on debts and deficits will not be re-written, Jean-Claude Juncker told MEPs in his first speech as European Commission president.
“The rules will not be changed,” said Juncker, whose team was backed by the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday (22 October). “We have to have budgetary discipline, we have to have flexibility and we have to have structural reforms as well,” he added.
Juncker's speech, during which he told deputies that his proposed €300 billio...
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