"How to overcome differences in economic and monetary strategies in the EU member states? How to strengthen agreement within the euro-zone? Can cooperation between governments be increased in support of the single currency? How to strengthen the relation between the European Parliament and the national assemblies on these matters?": these are some point which international experts, MEPs and leaders of the 27 parliaments of the EU member states will discuss in Brussels today and tomorrow in a two-day meeting called "Euro-zone, concurrence or drift". After an introduction by the president of the Economic Commission of the EU Parliament, Pervenche Berès, the floor will be taken by the president of the ECB Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the Euro-Group Jean-Claude Juncker and MEP Joaquin Almunia. The meeting is divided into several sessions about: how to face the differences and how to pursue agreement? (speeches by Jean-Paul Fitoussi, professor of economics at Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, and Robert C. Waggoner, professor of economics at Harvard University); global imbalances, a challenge for the euro (Joseph Stiglitz, economist at Columbia University); the role of the euro in a global world (Ngaire Woods, professor of international relations at Oxford).
