Experts give evidence on Economic and Monetary Union

• Parliament TV: Completing Europe's Economic and Monetary Union
• Inquiry: Completing Europe's Economic and Monetary Union
• EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee

Witnesses

The evidence session takes place on Wednesday 2 December in Committee Room 4, Palace of Westminster.

At 10.15am:

• Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (Sharon Bowles), former MEP and Chair of the European Parliament Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee
• Raoul Ruparel, Co-Director, Open Europe

Possible questions

The witnesses are likely to answer questions on the following areas:

• The overall aims of the Five Presidents' report and actions introduced in the short term by the European Commission on 21 October
• Direct or indirect impacts of actions identified by the European Commission to complete Europe's Economic and Monetary Union on non-euro area Member States, particularly the UK
• How EU institutions, including the European Parliament, will be affected by further efforts to integrate euro area Member States
• The achievement of fiscal union
• The evolving role and growing powers of the ECB
• Obstacles the euro area may face in agreeing the first stage of a European deposit insurance scheme
• How achieving a Capital Markets Union may complement and reinforce existing and future financial integration efforts, and in turn support the completion of EMU
• UK participation in initiatives set out in the Five Presidents' Report

Further information

• About Parliament: Select committees
• Visiting Parliament: Watch committees

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