MEPs rejected a report praising the European Central Bank's (ECB) interest rate policy on Tuesday (5 July) in a rebuff to bank president Jean-Claude Trichet.
Members voted down the text by 296 votes against 287 with 14 abstentions, in a u-turn on the decision of the economic and monetary affairs committee, which had earlier approved the document written by German center-right MEP Kurt Lauk.
The report praised the ECB's policy of focusing on price stability as a means to sustainab...
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