About: excessive deficit procedure

Monti: Nationalist parties temper the EU in view of future attacks
Pro-EU parties should not feel complacent about the nationalists' failure to win a majority in the new European Parliament, the former Italian prime minister and ex-EU Commissioner Mario Monti told EURACTIV in an interview.
Moscovici: Progress on deficit reduction must not be reversed
Pierre Moscovici spoke to EURACTIV's partner Ouest-France about France's left-wing primary, the impact of Donald Trump's election, the 3% deficit rule, the Commission's March white paper and the importance of the euro.![[ffsa.fr/Flickr]](https://www.euractiv.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/10/jean_arthuis_creditffsa_fr_flickr.jpeg)