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President yee good afternoon and welcome to the august 18, 2020 meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee all right. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart, and would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. The minutes will reflect that during the covid19 pandemic, the members of the board participated remotely Via Video Conference to the same extent as though physically present in their meeting chamber. The city believes that it is essential all communities with and without internet have the ability to participate remotely in this meeting
Crisis, we will also touch upon the European Union, european commissions, broader Economic Policy agenda as we hopefully recover from the crisis, it has been evolving fiscal institutions, its management of the european macro economy. It should be an interesting conversation, obviously of particular importance given the worldwide economic crisis we are suddenly found ourselves in. Let me introduce my guests today, director general for economic and Financial Affairs in the european commission, prior to his current job, he was director general for structural reform support a topic we will touch on a little bit as well i imagine, prior to that he was Deputy Director general for economic and Financial Affairs. He also worked extensively on the socalled fund which we will talk about as well. Anyway, with that introduction out of the way, i want to start out with talking about the way in which the crisis has unfolded over the past few months in your especially what actions have been taken to
Institute, i am delighted to host a conversation today was the director general for economic and Financial Affairs at the european commission, he has been there since they were 2020. Our conversation today will be about the economy of the European Union and the European Union with a response to the covid19 crisis. We will also touch upon the European Union and commissions broader Economic Policy agenda as we hopefully recover from the crisis, its evolving fiscal institutions and its management of the european macroeconomy. So it should be an interesting conversation and obviously particular important given the worldwide economic crisis we have found ourselves in. Let me introduce i guess today, he is the director general for economic of Financial Affairs in the european commission, prior to his current job he was director general for structural reform support and will touch a little bit on while i imagine. And prior to that he was Deputy Director general for economic and Financial Affa
Union Economic Policy response due to the covid19 crisis. Well also catch up on the European Union, European Commissions broader Economic Policy agenda as we hopefully recover from the crisis, its evolving fiscal institutions and its management of the european macro economy. So it should be an interesting conversation, particularly of particular importance given the worldwide economic crisis weve suddenly found ourselves in. Let me introduce my guest today. As i said, director general for Economic Affairs in the European Commission prior to his current job, he was for reform support and well touch on that as well, i imagine and prior to that he was Deputy Director general for economic and financial affairs. And did work extensively on the funds which well talk about as well. And anyway, with that introduction out of the way, i wanted to start out by just talking about the pay in which the crisis has unfolded over the past few months in europe and especially what actions have been taken