Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets UnionEmail: cab-mcguinness-contact
ec [dot] europa [dot] eu (cab-mcguinness-contact[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)Address: Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 200, 1049 Brussels, Belgium
Responsibilities
- Preserving and improving financial stability, protecting savers and investors and ensuring the flow of capital to where it is needed.
- Leading the work on completing the Banking Union, notably by finalising the common backstop to the Single Resolution Fund and agreeing on a European Deposit Insurance Scheme.
- Expediting the work on the Capital Markets Union to diversify sources of finance for companies and tackle the barriers to the flow of capital.
- Developing further the green financing strategy to support the implementation of the European Green Deal.
- Proposing a FinTech Strategy to support new digital technologies in our financial system.
- Developing a new private-public fund specialising in initial public offerings for small and medium enterprises.
- Developing a new, comprehensive approach to fighting money laundering and the financing of terrorist activities.
- Ensuring a common approach with Member States on cryptocurrencies.
- Securing Europe’s resilience to extraterritorial sanctions by third countries, including by proper enforcement of sanctions imposed by the EU.
Mission letter
- 13 SEPTEMBER 2020
- Gaeilge(169.21 KB - PDF)
European Parliament hearings
- 2 OCTOBER 2020
Latest
- 14 November 2024
- 3 October 2024
Calendar
- Dublin, Ireland
- Mairead McGuinness
- Dublin, Ireland
- Mairead McGuinness
Transparency
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- Meetings with Commissioner McGuinness
- Meetings with the Commissioner’s Cabinet
- Missions of Commissioner McGuinness
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Biography
- 2020 - presentEuropean Commissioner for financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union
- 2017 - 2020First Vice-President of the European Parliament
- 2014-2017Vice-President of the European Parliament
- 2004 - 2020Member of the European Parliament
- 2004-2020Member of Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, European Parliament
- 2009-2020Member of Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, European Parliament
- 2013-2014Vice-Chair, EPP Group, European Parliament
- 2002 - 2004Chair, Consumer Liaison Panel, Department for Agriculture and Food, Ireland
- 1980 - 2004Journalist, broadcaster and commentator