10/10/2019 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday, 10 October, the European Commission launched a call for applications to be part of its new high-level forum on the capital markets union (CMU). The forum will be composed of experts from different sectors, including civil society and the academic and business worlds, and will be responsible for preparing targeted recommendations for policies to strengthen and catalyse the CMU. The work will focus on three areas: creating a pan-European ecosystem enabling companies, including SMEs, to raise capital; promoting retail investors’ participation; and strengthening a pan-European financial market architecture. Interested individuals are invited to submit their applications before 7 November 2019. The group members will be selected in the weeks that follow, and the forum is expected to start its work on 26 November. (MF)