MEPs vote through more harmonised treatment for asylum seekers, reformed audit procedures for EU firms and the economic affairs commissioner faces angry MEPs.
How has the European Central Bank managed the crisis and what role should it take in the future? As ECB President Draghi was in Strasbourg, we interviewed two MEPs.
We ask Andreas Schwab if the Union for the Mediterranean can live on and Sven Giegold if the European Semester is the way to pull Europe out of the crisis.
In a bid to beat the crisis, the EU introduced the 'European Semester' to coordinate Member State budgets. But some voices are questioning its democratic credentials...