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From the single Currency to the single Ballot-Box
| 22/07/2008  Despite the uncertain fate of the Treaty of Lisbon, the European elections of June 2009 remain on the agenda. They are of fundamental importance for the direction of the European project in the next five years. For this reason Notre Europe wishes to underline the position of its European Steering Committee, which dates from 1998. This advocates linking the choice of Commission president to the results of European elections, with each political grouping proposing a candidate during the campaign. The text introducing the position, signed by our president, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, explains the significance of such a move with a reasoning unsettlingly relevant to today's situation. "Politicising the European debate", as the title of the ESC's position proposes, is now a matter of urgency. It will once again be on the agenda of the Committee next meeting, on 7-8 November in Paris.
Available in German.
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Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa died on 18th December 2010 in Rome. He was 70 years old. He was President of Notre Europe and Chairman of Promontory Europe. He was appointed by Greek Prime Minister Counsel for issues related to management of the economic crisis and public debt in the financial system on August 3, 2010. He was Chairman of the Trustees of the IFRS Foundation & International Financial Reporting Standards. He was Italian Minister of Economy and Finance (2006-08) and Chairman of the Ministerial Committee of the International Monetary Fund (IMFC, 2007-2008).
He was a former Chairman of the Trustees of the IASC Foundation (International Accounting Standard Committee, 2005-2006). In 1998-2005 he was member of the first Executive Board of the European Central Bank. Previously he was Chairman of Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB, 1997-98), Deputy Director General of the Banca d'Italia (1984-97) and Director General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the Commission of the European Communities (1979-83).
He has been Joint Secretary to the Delors Committee (1988-89), Chairman of the Banking Advisory Committee of the EC (1988-91) , Chairman of the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision (1993-97) and Chairman of the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (2000-05).
He graduated from the Luigi Bocconi University and has a M.Sc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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