Economic and Financial Affairs Council, 12 February 2019

Publisher	Council of the European Union
Publication Date	12/02/2019
Content Type	Overview
	Summary: A meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council was held on 12 February 2019. The agenda includes the following items: Adoption of general approach on proposal reviewing the functioning the European system of financial supervision; Exchange of views on the European Commission's Communication 'Towards a more efficient and democratic decision making in EU tax policy'; Adoption of Recommendation on the nomination of a new member of the European Central Bank's Executive Board; Adoption of conclusions on the European Commission's Fiscal Sustainability Report for 2018; Adoption of guidelines ahead of the discussions relating to the annual EU budget for 2020; Adoption of Recommendation on a discharge to the European Commission for implementation of the 2017 EU budget.
Source Link	Link to Main Source https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/ecofin/2019/02/12/
Related Links	Official European Commission: Remarks by Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis at the ECOFIN press conference, 12 February 2019 http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-19-1056_en.htm
Subject Categories	Economic and Financial Affairs
Subject Tags	Council of the European Union
Keywords	ECOFIN Meetings
International Organisations	European Union [EU]