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The new framework constructs unprecedented new intervention in national budget and economic decisions (Photo: EU Commission)

EU ushers in 'silent revolution' in control of national economic policies

After months of often bitter back-room negotiations, European finance ministers have finally given the green light to a radical new centralised EU oversight of national budgeting processes and, broader still, of all economic policies - both of countries that use the single currency and those that do not.

The unprecedented shift in powers to the bloc from member-state parliaments, heavily limiting what is known in the jargon as "policy space", or the ability of countries to write their o...

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The new framework constructs unprecedented new intervention in national budget and economic decisions (Photo: EU Commission)

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