12.06.2012 - 08:17 [ Wall Street Journal ]

EU‘s Rehn Urges Five Countries to Ratify ESM Quickly

Mr. Rehn expressed his concern that Austria, Belgium, Estonia, the Netherlands and Slovakia were being slow to ratify the treaty of the European Stability Mechanism and said he had urged these countries to push the treaty through faster. He said Germany‘s cumbersome ratification process was in the pipeline and he expected it to be completed before the end of June.