T\u00c1NAISTE SIMON HARRIS will represent the European Union at a two-day meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors in North Carolina.<\/p>\n
Much like the EU presidency, the G20 presidency rotates annually among its members.<\/p>\n
The US is hosting the meeting as part of its G20 presidency duties.<\/p>\n
The G20 brings together 19 member countries, as well as two non-State participants \u2013 the EU and the African Union.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Ireland currently holds the EU presidency, and as part of this, Harris will represent the EU, alongside President of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde, and EU Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis.<\/p>\n
The G20 meetings will focus on the outlook for the global economy, with key issues such as energy security and financial and economic stability set to be discussed.<\/p>\n
The meetings will also include discussions on the global economy, global imbalances, financial sector issues and sovereign debt infrastructure.<\/p>\n
During the two-day trip to Asheville, North Carolina, Harris will also hold bilateral meetings with ministers from G20 member states.<\/p>\n
Ahead of travelling to North Carolina, Harris described the G20 as an \u201cimportant inter-governmental forum where the world\u2019s largest economies can exchange views and work towards international economic and financial stability\u201d.<\/p>\n
He added that holding the presidency of the EU \u201cbrings with it an important responsibility for Ireland\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the G20, we will have the opportunity to articulate the EU\u2019s position on some of the most significant economic and financial issues facing the global economy,\u201d said Harris.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmong these of course is energy security and ensuring we have secure and resilient energy supplies at a time of severe volatility caused by the conflict in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris said he will also use his time in North Carolina to \u201cmeet bi-laterally with a number of my finance counterparts\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese engagements are an important opportunity to deepen relations with key international partners, exchange views on the challenges facing our economies and advance the EU\u2019s priorities,\u201d said Harris.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Ireland is also invited as a guest country to attend the G20 Leaders\u2019 Summit in Miami in December at the invitation of the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\u00c1NAISTE SIMON HARRIS will represent the European Union at a two-day meeting of finance ministers and central bank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,281053,4893,99989,13,14,281054,17244,6,11,12,15,16,5,3280,44,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-665184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-centrak-banks","tag-eu","tag-eu-presidency","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-finance-ministers","tag-g20","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-north-carolina","tag-simon-harris","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117190255399005714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}