ue2008.fr - Priorities of the French Presidency of the Council to the European Parliament

Presentation of the priorities of the French Presidency of the Council to the Committees of the European Parliament

from: 15.07.2008
to: 17.07.2008
In: Brussels, European Parliament

The French ministers will present the programme of the Presidency of the Council to the Committees of the European Parliament on 15, 16 and 17 July.

While the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has already presented the programme of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union in a plenary session of the European Parliament on 10 July, the French ministers will meet with the specialised Parliamentary Committees on 15, 16 and 17 July 2008 to set out the respective French priorities that concern them. In keeping with tradition, at the start of each six-month Presidency, the ministers come to debate their programme and priorities with the MEPs sitting in specialised committees.
The European Parliament has twenty specialised committees, each of which draws up, amends and votes legislative proposals and own-initiative reports in their respective areas of competence. They examine legislative proposals from the Commission and the Council and, if necessary, write a report which will be presented in plenary session.

About twenty members of the French Government are taking part in this three-day presentation to sixteen of the twenty parliamentary committees. The four committees that are not affected are the Budget and the Budgetary Control Committees, which are never usually required to participate, the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, which already received the presentation at the end of June 2008, and the Committee on Legal Affairs, for which a presentation is scheduled September 2008.

See also the attached agenda of ministerial interventions on the 15, 16 and 17 July.

See:

Presentation of the priorities of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union to the Committees of the European Parliament.

Address by Bernard Kouchner, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament (FR)

Address by the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs to the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament (FR)

Christine Lagarde’s speech to the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (EN)

Luc Chatel’s address to the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (FR)

Anne-Marie Idrac’s speech to the Committee on International Trade (FR)

Dominique Bussereau’s speech to the Committee on Transport and Tourism (EN)

Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin’s speech to the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (EN)

Address of Michèle Alliot-Marie to the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (EN)

Address of Rachida Dati to the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (FR)

Address of Valérie Pécresse to the Committee on Culture and Education (FR)