The European Commission currently plans to leave the EU debt rules as they are. „The Commission is not proposing this,“ said Valdis Dombrovskis after the Eurogroup meeting in Brussels on Monday. „Firstly, we completed this work less than a year ago,“ said the Economic Affairs Commissioner about the hard-negotiated reform of the EU debt rules. „Secondly, the discussions and the legislative process would take time. But we have to act now.“ That is why he wants to use the flexibilities already built into the new fiscal rules with the national escape clause.