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The Swedish Government has appointed an inquiry to analyse the implications of Sweden possibly joining the European Banking Union.

The inquiry is to report on the advantages, disadvantages and risks associated with participating in or remaining outside the Banking union.

Some of the topics analysed are: How will supervision and crisis management be affected? What will be the consequences for the competitiveness of the Swedish banking system? On what conditions can Sweden participate?

The inquiry chair, Director General Anna-Karin Jatko, was presenting the report.

Nicolas Véron, Bruegel and the Peterson Institute for International ¹û¶³ÊÓƵ (PIIE) and one of the leading authorities on the Banking Union commented on the report from a European perspective.

 

Participants
Anna-Karin Jatko, General Director at EKN Exportkreditnämnden.
Nicolas Véron, senior fellow at Bruegel i Brussels and Peterson Institute for International ¹û¶³ÊÓƵ in Washington.
Lars Calmfors, Professor of International ¹û¶³ÊÓƵ, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University.

 

The meeting was held in English and was moderated by Pehr Wissén, Ph.D. economics, senior adviser, Swedish House of Finance at the ¹û¶³ÊÓƵ.

 

The  is a meeting forum for the financial sector, hosted by SNS and the Swedish House of Finance.

 at the ¹û¶³ÊÓƵ is Sweden's national research center in financial economics.