Finance Minister Andrey Bajuk met in Rome on Monday his Italian counterpart Tomaso Padoa-Schioppa and Italian central bank governor Mario Draghi and presented Slovenia's priorities for the EU presidency in the first half of 2008 regarding the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN).
Bajuk said that one of Slovenia's priorities was to introduce the guidelines of economic policies for the interim review of the Lisbon Strategy. The officials also discussed the financial stability of the EU.
According to Bajuk, debate on the stability and convergence programmes of the EU member states and more effective public financing is also a priority of Slovenia's EU presidency.
Furthermore, Bajuk announced that Slovenia was to discuss the umbrella directive on capital adequacy of insurance companies and to complete the directives on investment funds and financial guarantees.
Meanwhile, in the field of fiscal policies, Slovenia is to discuss the dossiers on VAT, the fight against tax evasion and the new horizontal excise duty directive.
Bajuk and Padoa-Schioppa also exchanged their views on relevant multilateral issues and on the International Monetary Fund quota system.
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