The EEA Council will be held in the context of the ongoing negotiations on the financial contribution of the EEA-EFTA countries to reduce the economic and social disparities within the EEA.
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The EU ministers responsible for equality between women and men are to meet on 14 November 2008 in Lille.
Two issues will be on the agenda: reducing wage gaps and best practices in terms of professional equality in companies.
The French Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment, Christine Lagarde, invites her European counterparts to discuss the European cluster strategy.
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A Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Health, co-chaired by Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, the French Minister of Health, Youth, Sports and the Voluntary Sector, and Hatem Mostafa El-Gabali, the Egyptian Minister for Health and Population, will be held in Cairo on 16 and 17 November 2008. It will bring together the health ministers the 27 European Union countries and the 16 countries around the Mediterranean.
moreThe informal meeting of ministers for housing, urban development, regional development and cohesion policy will take place from 24 to 26 November in Marseilles.
moreThe housing policy ministers met in Marseilles on 24 November to discuss access to housing for persons in difficulty and adopted a final communiqué.
moreThe urban development ministers met today in Marseilles to discuss the "sustainable and inclusive city" and adopted a final communiqué.
moreThis meeting will bring together the ministers for education, vocational training and higher education from the Member States.
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Under the auspices of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, an informal meeting was held in Bordeaux, on 26 November, between the ministers for vocational education and training (VET) and the ministers for higher education. The participants adopted the 'Bordeaux communiqué".
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The informal meeting of European ministers for regional development and cohesion policy held in Marseilles concluded successfully with the unanimous adoption of a new stage of the territorial agenda.
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