MEPs had urged Jean-Claude Juncker to act quickly on the investment plan. He complied, and placed on the table of co-legislators a proposal for a regulation for a European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) within a few weeks, calling on MEPs to adopt it just as quickly. But it did not get off to a good start.
They have already spent one month arguing over the dossier. The Committee on Budgets (BUDG), chaired by French Liberal Jean Arthuis, logically believed…