Single Market and the Euro interviews
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Pervenche Berès

MEP (1994-2019)

Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs 2004-2009

Chair of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs 2009-2014

Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis 2009-2011

'It started as an economic idea. But the dynamic behind it is obviously much more. It was meant to be the cement of the EU... Since the beginning in 1957 , you have the idea that we need to be a free market and we need fair competition among us... The Internal Market was also a way to know the others better and to have an exchange. It was somehow a foreign policy without saying it.'

MEP Pervenche Berès speaks at a special sitting on the euro in Brussels, 2 May 1998 © European Union, 1998
Meeting of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, 12 April 2005 © European Union, 2005
Press conference on the Financial, economic and social crisis report, 6 July 2011. Wolf Klinz (L), Pervenche Berès (R) © European Union, 2011
Meeting on the 2017 European Semester, 30 May 2017. Pervenche Berès (L), Commissioner Pierre Moscovici (R) © European Union, 2017
Members of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, 1 April 2019 © European Union, 2019