Economic Dialogue with the President of the Eurogroup – ECON on 21 March 2017

Please note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.Jeroen Dijsselbloem, President of the Eurogroup, was invited by the ECON Committee of the European Parliament in March 2017 to a regular Economic Dialogue Economic Dialogue with the other EU Institutions under the European Semester Cycles, in particular, in accordance with Article 2ab of Regulation 1466/97 as amended.

This briefing provides an overview of the ongoing work of the Eurogroup as regards public finances, macro-economic imbalances, financial adjustment programmes and the banking union. Mr Dijsselbloem has been the Eurogroup President since January 2013. As the President of the Eurogroup, he was also chairing the Board of Governors of the European Stability Mechanism.

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