the decisive moment marked for a week from today, Portugal has received this Tuesday the most precious help to be able to believe that you will not suffer a partial suspension of european funds. The European Parliament decided, after listening to Mário Centeno and his Spanish counterpart, defend with the Commission that do not go to any type of freeze on the allocation of funds to the two countries of the Iberian Peninsula.
The european parliament’s position was adopted by a "majority very expressive," announced the member of parliament Marisa Matias, who is one of the coordinators of the committee of the European Parliament for economic affairs who, in conjunction with the committee on regional development voted on this matter.
it is now up to the European Commission to take the decision on what recommendation it will make to the Council, the institution that ultimately has the power to decide on this matter. Marisa Matias, Left Bloc, stated to journalists that it is the understanding of the European Parliament that "temporarily, the case is closed", but pointed out that it is open to the possibility to reopen the discussion with the Commission if this may take a decision different from that which was now advocated by the parliament.
the vote of The parliament took place at a meeting immediately following the Mário Centeno and the Spanish minister, Luis de Guindos, speaking to the deputies, arguing that their countries should not be penalized with the suspension of the funds.
Centeno repeated those have been your arguments in this discussion: a suspension would be contradictory to the Commission’s decision not to impose fines, it would be counterproductive to the economic level and the political effects would be very negative due to the distrust against the european project that would create in its citizens. "It is up to us all to protect the european project, not put it in question," said the minister in his intervention.
The great majority in the parliament to defend the same that the minister was evident in the question and answer session that followed his speech. The deputy from behind the deputy, the Portuguese and other EU countries, they used adjectives strong to criticize a possible suspension: "absurd", "illogical", "counterproductive" and "a mess". And many of them, more to the left than to the right, also underlined that the european legislation which provides for the possibility of this type of measure should be changed.
Among the Portuguese who took part, all the members of the PSD have made it a point to stress that in 2015 the deficit just after all by staying just below 3%, and that "the Government should have notified the Commission of that fact". Nuno Melo, the CDS-PP, said that for a time not via Rye "as a socialist minister" and cited the book in which two journalists of the French interview president François Holande, citing the passages in which this explains why it is that France and the big countries receive preferential treatment of the european institutions.
The deputies of the Left Block and the PCP, in addition to criticizing any suspension, said that was the policy of austerity applied at the european level, Portugal is in the difficult situation in which it is located. Pedro Silva Pereira, the PS, said that "this is a debate nonsense that has dragged on for far too long," and argued that "Portugal does not need any incentive to comply with the rules for the simple reason that Portugal is already to comply with the rules".
There was, however, also some members from other countries, although never defending the option to suspend the funds, have put questions about the policies followed by the Portuguese Government. The German Burkhard Balz was one of them, to ask why it is that the economy does not grow as much as the Spanish and the question the option of the Government to move from 40 to 35 hours the working week of public employees.
Centeno responded that Spain has resolved the sooner the problem of fragility of the financial system and argued that the changes made by the Government in the public service were "very limited."
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