A week before a crucial EU summit on the Constitution, to be held on 12 and 13 December in Brussels, the Dutch government has announced it will push for extra legal guarantees to force EU countries to comply with the Stability and Growth Pact.
In an interview on Dutch public television on Sunday (7 December), the Dutch state secretary for European Affairs Atzo Nicolaï demanded that the new Constitution include expanded powers for the European Court of Justice over the Stability Pact – t...
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