» Monday, October 3, 2011

Europe

Asked if the Chancellor was going to ECOFIN with any particular message, the PMS said that he had set out the arguments he would make in an interview that morning. The PMS summarised the Chancellor’s words, saying that the Eurozone needed to increase the size and firepower of their financial fund for bailouts (a fund that the UK would not be a part of), they needed to deal with their weak banks (as Britain has), that they needed to decide what they are doing with Greece and stick to that decision, and finally, on the timetable, the Chancellor said that Europe needed to deal with this now, with urgency.

Asked if the UK would contribute if the EU fund appealed to the IMF, the PMS said that Britain would uphold its longstanding commitment to the IMF, but that it would not be part of a new, specific, eurozone bail out fund.

Asked for the Government’s response to Greece’s announcement about not meeting its deficit plans, the PMS said it was not for us to dictate to them what should happen, but the Chancellor had set out a strong position regarding what he thinks about the Eurozone and the current situation.

original source.

Briefing took place at 10:00 | Search for related news

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Post a public comment

(You must give an email address, but it will not be displayed to the public.)
(You may give your website, and it will be displayed to the public.)

Comments:

This is not a way of contacting the Prime Minister. If you would like to contact the Prime Minister, go to the 10 Downing Street official site.

Privacy note: Shortly after posting, your name and comment will be displayed on the site. This means that people searching for your name on the Internet will be able to find and read your comment.

Downing Street Says...

The unofficial site which lets you comment on the UK Prime Minister's official briefings. About us...

Search


October 2011
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
« Sep   Nov »
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31  

Supported by

mySociety.org

Disruptive Proactivity

Recent Briefings


Archives

Links

Syndicate (RSS/XML)

Credits

Enquiries

Contact Sam Smith.

This site is powered by WordPress. Theme by Jag Singh