EC over rol nationale parlementen in de toekomstige EMU

11 July 2013

Chairman, Minister, Honourable Members, Ladies and Gentlemen

Thank you very much for inviting me to join you here in the beautiful city of Vilnius at the start of what promises to be a busy and important Lithuanian Presidency.

The issue I want to discuss today will of course keep us busy well beyond those six months – the future of the economic and monetary union, and of the closer political union that must inevitably come with it, will occupy us for many years to come.

But it is vital work.