The Economic and Financial Affairs Council is meeting on Thursday 17 July in Brussels, under the presidency of Eric Woerth, the French Minister for the Budget, Public Accounts and the Civil Service.
moreOn Thursday 17 July, Eric Woerth chaired the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Budget) in Brussels.
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European competitiveness ministers will meet at Versailles and Jouy-en-Josas on 17–18 July for an informal competitiveness meeting.
moreValérie Pécresse, France's Minister for Higher Education and Research, brought together her fellow European ministers as chair of the first informal competitiveness meeting of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The meeting was held at the HEC business school in Jouy-en-Josas.
moreOn 18 July, the twenty-seven internal market and industry ministers worked on established a 'European Small Business Act' for SMEs.
moreThe 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.
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The day before the next round of United Nations negotiations designed to reach an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases, France, which is currently president of the European Union, is organising an informal workshop in Reims from 16 to 18 July which it says is a presidential kick-off workshop on the current status of negotiations.
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The French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs presented the priorities of the French Presidency to the OSCE on 17 July.
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Under the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the French embassy in Germany and its cultural network, in partnership with European Movement Germany and European Movement France, is organising a series of debates under the "Impulse zu Europa/Penser l'Europe" banner.
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