Commission des finances,
du contrôle budgétaire
et des comptes économiques
de la Nation
 

Le Président

Commission des finances,
de l'économie générale
 et du plan


Le Président

 

Paris, June 6th 2008

 Courtesy translation

 

Ms Chairwoman, Mr Chairman,

In the second half of this year, France will hold the presidency of the European Union Council. The parliamentarians of the twenty-seven Member States, like the members of the European Parliament, will have during this period several opportunities for meetings and exchanges in France and at the European Parliament.

We have, for our part, wished to organise a meeting of all our colleagues chairmen of Finance committees in order to debate on two topics which are worth a confrontation of viewpoints and in-depth exchanges: fiscal competition and ecological fiscality.

You will be invited to a welcome dinner on Sunday 14 September at 8 p.m. at the Senate. The meetings and the working lunch will be held on Monday 15 September from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the National Assembly.

For your visit to take place as smoothly as possible, we draw your attention to the date by which it would be advisable to have registered and booked a hotel, in other words, at the latest, 8 August 2008.

We sincerely hope you can be one of us and that the debates that will take place on this occasion will contribute to strengthening the involvement of the national parliaments of the Member States of the Union in the European decision-making process.

Yours faithfully,

 

 

Didier Migaud

Président de la commission des finances,
de l'économie générale et du plan

Jean Arthuis

Président de la commission des
finances, du contrôle budgétaire
et des comptes économiques de la Nation