“The EU Fiscal Crisis: Forcing Eurozone Political Union In 2011?”
Seminar
Background:
“The EU Fiscal Crisis: Forcing Eurozone Political Union in 2011?”
The end of the euro would be the end of Europe – only tough collective action from eurozone leaders can prevent financial meltdown. But do political leaders fully realise the enormous scale of what is required and the frightening consequence of failure, and that intense financial and economic pressures are forcing far-reaching political changes in the eurozone? In this searching presentation, Graham Bishop examines the driving forces and potential outcomes of the eurozone debt crisis.
Graham spent nearly 40 years working in the City of London as an economist and investment manager. His City career encompasses Phillips & Drew, S G Warburg, and Salomon Brothers/Citigroup.
He has worked extensively with both European and UK political authorities, including the European Commission, where he was a member of the Consultative Group on the Impact of the Euro on Capital Markets (the Giovaninni Group). He was also a member of the Commission's Strategy Group on Financial Services (1998 – creating the Financial Services Action Plan) and the Committee of Independent Experts on the preparation of the changeover to the single currency (1994–95). He was nominated by the European Parliament to be one of its two members of the first Inter-Institutional Monitoring Group, and was Rapporteur for the spring 2003 and November 2004 Reports. He was elected to the Board of the Kangaroo Group in November, 2005 and re-elected in 2007 and 2009.
In the UK’s House of Commons, Mr Bishop was a Special Advisor to the Treasury Select Committee in its examination in 2003 of the implications for United Kingdom membership of the Single Currency. He advised the Treasury Committee on the corresponding reports in 1998 and 1996. He was also a Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union in its 2003 inquiry into The Barriers to Competition in the Internal Market for Financial Services.
Date
Monday, 23 May 2011
Time
18:00 BST
Cost
Free
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Speaker(s):
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Graham Bishop
Consultant
Adviser and Commentator
Location
IoD hub, City of London
New Broad Street House, 35 New Broad Street
London
EC2M 1NH