From left to right: Martin Meyer, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economics, Construction and Transport of Liechtenstein, Steingrímur Sigfússon, Minister of Finance of Iceland, Sigbjørn Johnsen, Minister of Finance of Norway, and Michael Ambühl, State Secretary for International Financial Matters, Federal Department of Finance of Switzerland.
The annual meeting of EFTA and EU Finance Ministers took place on 17 November. The two items on the agenda were intelligent fiscal supervision and financial market regulation and supervision. The EFTA ECOFIN meeting was preceded by an internal meeting of the EFTA Ministers.
The EFTA ECOFIN meeting was chaired by Didier Reynders, Minister of Finance, representing the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council. Ollie Rehn, Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs and Michel Barnier, Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, presented the Commission position on the two issues.
As current EFTA Chair, Liechtenstein presented the common EFTA paper, as well as the Liechtenstein position. Brief interventions were made by the Ministers of Finance from Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.
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