House of Commons Statement on the European Council

17 March 2008 Check Against Delivery With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement about the European Council held in Brussels that I attended with my Rt Hon Friend the Foreign Secretary on the 13th and 14th of March. I begin with the most immediate concern the Council addressed: the need to ensure that – faced with global financial turbulence and what the Council identified as a deteriorating global economic outlook, high global oil and commodity prices and volatility in exchange rates – we continue to do all we can with coordinated action at a European and a global level to maintain stability and growth.
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