EU: Economic and Financial Issues Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

EU: Economic and Financial Issues

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton Excerpts
Monday 12th March 2012

(12 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Sassoon Portrait Lord Sassoon
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My Lords, as I have already said, there is a remorseless logic that has to take monetary union towards closer fiscal co-ordination, if not union. That is what the latest intergovernmental agreement is one step towards.

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton Portrait Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton
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My Lords, why did the Minister not answer at all my noble friend Lord Tomlinson’s question?

Lord Sassoon Portrait Lord Sassoon
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My Lords, I believe that I did.