The Transnational Institute
and Corporate Europe Observatory, in cooperation with European ATTAC Network invite you to a public debate:
Economic Governance for People or for the Banks?
12 October 2011, 9.30 to 12.30
at Résidence Palace - International Press Centre
Rue de la Loi 155 - Bloc C, Brussels
(Se ofrecerá traducción al español)
In 2010, the European Commission put forward a package of six legislative
proposals, known as the 'Six Pack', aimed at restructuring the current EU
economic governance framework. If approved as it is, the Commission is
given increased power to intervene in highly sensitive and strategic areas of
economic and social policy of member states. The adoption of these
proposals has since been accelerated, with a final vote set to take place in
the European Parliament in the coming weeks.
Up to now, the discussion has been confined to the Commission, the European
Parliament, the Council, in consultation with technocrats and financial sector
lobbyists in Brussels. There is an urgent need to move this important
agenda on the future democratic and economic institutions of the EU into the
public domain.
Join a representative of DG ECFIN and critical economists to debate important
questions about the future of economic governance in the EU:
* Is there a case for the proposed economic governance
package?
* Is downward harmonization of economic and social policies
the way forward?
* What are the implications for EU member states of ceding
these competencies to the European Commission?
* What are the likely impacts of implementing an austerity
agenda under the proposed economic governance framework?
* Is this the solution to the crisis? What are the
progressive alternatives?
Panelists:
Servaas Deroose, Deputy DG ECFIN, European Commission (t.b.c.)
Andy Storey, University College Dublin, Ireland
Kenneth Haar, Corporate Europe Observatory
Costas Lapavitsas, School of Oriental and African Studies/Research for Money
and Finance
Dominique Plihon, European Attac Network/Paris Nord University, France
Moderator: Susan George, President of the Board of Transnational Institute
(TNI)
For more information and to register, contact: Julie de los Reyes , Yiorgos
Vassalos
Julie de los Reyes juliedelosreyes@tni.org, Yiorgos Vassalos
yiorgos@corporateeurope.org
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Datum/Uhrzeit: 12. Oktober 09:30 bis 12:30
Ort: Brüssel