Chaired by Anne-Marie Idrac, the Minister of State with responsibility for Foreign Trade of France, the extraordinary meeting of the General Affairs and External Relations convoked on 18 July to prepare the ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will resume its work in Geneva on Monday 21 July at 14.30.
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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.
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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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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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