Engagement with EU Policymakers (since 12 May)
Date
Event
Guests
12 May
Hume Brophy UK Election Result Briefing
Vicky Ford MEP
Corbett MEP
13 May
City Office Brussels meeting
Daniel Bolder,
Council
19 May
City Office Brussels meeting
26 May
Investment Association Brussels Reception
Peter Curwen, Director Economic
& Financial Affairs, UK Permanent
Representation
Anneliese Dodds MEP and Martin
Wheatley (FCA)
Discussion on attendance at
IRSG Council and general
catch up
Discussion focussed on the
Capital Markets Union and
future regulation in the EU
28 May
AIMA - Bridging the Financial Gap
Markus Ferber MEP
Discussion focussed on the
Capital Markets Union and
access to funding for SMEs
1 June
EESC – A European tax as an EU own Commissioner Pierre Moscovici Discussion centred on the
resource
and Vladimír Maňka MEP
current system for funding the
EU budget and taxation
possibilities surrounding it
City Office Brussels meeting
John
Watson,
Commission Discussion on high-level DG
representative on COREPER 1
appointments and general
catch up: banking structure
reform,
CMU,
Presidents
2 June
Theme of discussion
and
Swiss
Richard Discussion on the implications
for Europe of the UK election
Financial Discussion of Swiss initiative
on 3rd country recognition
3 June
EESC – Access to finance for SMEs
8 June
City Office meeting
Ciprian Cristea (DG GROW),
Christos
Kontogeorgos
(DG
REGIO), Rémi Charrier (European
Investment Fund) and José Manuel
Fernandes, MEP
Georg Hubner, Head of Office,
German
Savings
Banks
representation to the EU
report
Discussion focussed on the
Capital Markets Union and
access to funding for SMEs
9 June
Introductory
meeting
with
Hubner the new head of the
office, discussed CMU and EU
reform
Joint event with IFSC Ireland and Irish Irish Minister of State for Finance, The event followed on from the
Permanent Representation to discuss CMU Simon Harris
European
Commission’s
Brian Hayes MEP (ECON)
conference on CMU and
Nial Bohan, European Commission provided an opportunity to
Nick Collier, Thomson Reuters_
consider the Irish and UK
perspective
City Office Brussels meeting
Sean Berrigan, DG FISMA
Discussion on CMU
9 June
City Office Brussels meeting
17 June
City Office Brussels meeting
18 June
City Office Brussels meeting
22 June
City Office meeting
9 June
Sean McGuire, CBI Brussels
Discussion on EU reform
process
Hans Hack, Managing Director FTI Discussion on CMU and
banking structure reform
Antony Manchester, Director Swiss EU reform, Swiss situation visFinancial Council
à-vis the EU and the Single
Market access
Kolja Gabriel, Head of Brussels Discussion on German view of
Office, German Private Banks CMU and EU reform, including
Association
UK referendum
23 June
Meetings with JHA attaches from Italy, Chair and members of the IRSG These meetings form part of
Sweden and Poland
Data workstream
the IRSG advocacy work to
highlight financial services
concerns at the current EU
Data Protection proposals
24 June
City Office meeting
30 June
1 July
1 July
3 July
David Cook, First Secretary Discussion
on
banking
Financial Services, UKRep
structure reform, EU reform
and CMU
European Movement International – UK EU Jo Leinen MEP and Kay Swinburne Panel discussion on the UK’s
reform agenda
MEP
EU reform agenda covering 4
cornerstones of sovereignty,
fairness, competitiveness and
immigration
City Office meeting
Peter Curwen, Director Economic General
catch-up
and
& Financial Affairs, UK Permanent discussion
about
Council
Representation
General Approach on banking
structure reform
Atlantic Council paper launch – Renminbi Neena Gill MEP, Petr Jezek MEP Roundtable
discussion
to
Ascending
and Peter Grasmann (DG FISMA)
launch new report "Renminbi
Ascending:
How
China's
Currency
Impacts
Global
Markets, Foreign Policy and
Transatlantic
Financial
Regulation"
British Chamber of Commerce – UK/EU Alison Rose (British Ambassador to Discussion on the UK’s EU
relations
Belgium)
reform
agenda
and
UK
relationship with EU
Officials and Policymakers met by the EU Team
 Eleanor Hourigan, UKRep
 Nick Minogue, UKRep
 Ivan Smyth, UKRep
 Luca de Matteis, Italian Permanent Representation
 David Harrby, Swedish Permanent Representation
 Ewa Gromnicka, Polish Permanent Representation
 Joe Cullen, Irish Permanent Represenation
 Michael Taggart, Irish Permanent Represenation
 John Berrigan, Director DG FISMA, Commission
 Niall Bohan, DG FISMA Commission
 John Watson, Commission Representative Coreper 1
 Georg Hubner, Head of Office, German Savings Banks EU representation
 Kolja Gabriel, Head of Brussels Office, German Private Banks Association
 Peter Curwen, Director Economic & Financial Affairs, UK Permanent Representation
 Daniel Bolder, Swiss Financial Council
 David Cook, UK Permanent Representation