EU Parliament not impressed with Van Rompuy’s summit results: EUX.TV news video

Check out this useful video - The European Parliament is not pleased with the lack of progress on economic reforms in the talks about increased economic cooperation in the European Union. After meeting with European Council President Herman van Rompuy, the leaders of the main groups in the parliament all said they were not pleased with the outcome of Thursday's EU summit in Brussels. Footage source: EbS Edit: EUX.tv For the official summit conclusions: www.consilium.europa.eu SOUNDBITE (in English) Corien Wortmann-Kool (PPE, NL: I must say that, although I did feel and I expressed that the Council and the member states are very committed to work more closely together, we want to see more ambition, we want to see that they really coordinate their policies, that there is a kind of binding sanction mechanism when they don't fulfil their obligations. And there, it is still a long way to go, and the Parliament really has to play a leading role as we did this week with the broad support of the EP on our position on the 2020 strategy and on the economic governance. And we really are going to challenge the Council to go hand in hand towards a strong and successful economic cooperation because that is in the interest of all our citizens that want at the end growth and jobs. SOUNDBITE (in French) Véronique De Keyser (S&D, BE): In our group we are rather afraid about the fact that this idea of economic stabilisation in order to win over the confidence of financial markets will not only be an obstacle for real ... Any comments?

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