Ministers vow move to boost EU economies

Report of a meeting of the Eurogroup finance ministers on 9 July 2001 and the Ecofin Council on 10 July 2001. The main topics of the eurogroup meeting were structural reforms to strengthen the productive potential of the eurozone economies and reforms of tax and benefit systems in order to improve incentives for work. At the Ecofin Council, ministers adopted a code of conduct to reduce budget deficits in the Member States.

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