"Eleven different opinions by the ten MEPs speaking," summed up a disillusioned observer of the EP Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), referring to the excessive number of compromises tabled to the document before it could be adopted in committee.
There were so many amendments (350) and compromises on the report on the 2014 priorities of the 'European semester', to be put to the vote in the European Parliament on 21 October in Strasbourg, that each large political group…