>**SPD politician Roth calls for debate on reform of the EU Stability Pact**
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>*Roth calls for the debate on the pact to be “ideologically disarmed”. The coalition agreement leaves enough room for a debate.*
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>Berlin In the SPD, there are more and more voices calling for a reform of the European Growth and Stability Pact. “I think we have to face this reform discussion,” said Michael Roth, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag, to the Reuters news agency. “We should not, in an arrogant attitude, accuse all Mediterranean states of only wanting to pursue a debt policy at our expense.” France and Italy have called for a new regulation of the stability criteria.
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>The debate on a reform initiated by the EU Commission is “an ideologically very charged topic” in Germany, Roth criticised. “I would advise everyone to disarm ideologically.”
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>In all EU states, including Germany, there was an interest in having sufficient financial resources for the necessary investments. “It is not a question of states throwing money out uncontrolled at Christmas.” We have to be prepared for climate protection and the modernisation of infrastructure.
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>”The agreement in the coalition treaty leaves enough room for such a discussion without anyone wanting to go into an unrestrained European debt union,” Roth said. In the Eurozone, however, more convergence through binding coordination was necessary; the social and economic imbalances between the member countries were still too great. Previously, Achim Post, vice-chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, had also demanded that the federal government quickly reform the European Stability and Growth Pact.
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>**SPD politician Roth calls for debate on reform of the EU Stability Pact**
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>*Roth calls for the debate on the pact to be “ideologically disarmed”. The coalition agreement leaves enough room for a debate.*
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>Berlin In the SPD, there are more and more voices calling for a reform of the European Growth and Stability Pact. “I think we have to face this reform discussion,” said Michael Roth, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag, to the Reuters news agency. “We should not, in an arrogant attitude, accuse all Mediterranean states of only wanting to pursue a debt policy at our expense.” France and Italy have called for a new regulation of the stability criteria.
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>The debate on a reform initiated by the EU Commission is “an ideologically very charged topic” in Germany, Roth criticised. “I would advise everyone to disarm ideologically.”
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>In all EU states, including Germany, there was an interest in having sufficient financial resources for the necessary investments. “It is not a question of states throwing money out uncontrolled at Christmas.” We have to be prepared for climate protection and the modernisation of infrastructure.
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>”The agreement in the coalition treaty leaves enough room for such a discussion without anyone wanting to go into an unrestrained European debt union,” Roth said. In the Eurozone, however, more convergence through binding coordination was necessary; the social and economic imbalances between the member countries were still too great. Previously, Achim Post, vice-chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, had also demanded that the federal government quickly reform the European Stability and Growth Pact.
Was about time.
*Angry Schauble noises*