§ 26. Mr. Skinnerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he next expects to meet other EEC Finance Ministers; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. HealeyI hope to meet them at the next meeting of the Finance Council scheduled for 19th June.
I last met my Community colleagues at the meeting of the Finance Council under Danish Presidency on 22nd May. We had an exchange of views on the establishment of a common economic policy strategy for the Community in the context of the European Council meeting in Copenhagen in April and the forthcoming meeting in Bremen in July. There was agreement that a common strategy would enable member States to alleviate the constraints now restricting the scope of economic policy measures and that concerted action would strengthen considerably the cumulative effect of individual steps taken by member States. The Council instructed its specialist bodies to continue their work so that at the June meeting Finance Ministers may be in a position to put forward policy recommendations for discussion at the European Council meeting in July.