The Chinese authorities informed the European Union of their decision to request the postponement of the 11th EU-China Summit, scheduled to be held on 1 December next.
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Hervé Novelli obtains a political agreement on the SBA (Small Business Act) and on the establishment of an action plan for the European SMEs.
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The competitiveness Council members on internal market affairs will be meeting on 1 December under the presidency of Hervé Novelli, the French Minister of State for Business, Trades, Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Tourism and Services and Jean-Pierre Jouyet, the French Minister of State for European Affairs.
moreDuring December 2008, the French ministers will take stock of the French Presidency of the Council before the Parliamentary Committees of the European Parliament in Brussels.
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The director of the policy planning centre of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a meeting of his counterparts from the policy planning services of the other 26 Member States of the European Union, along with their counterparts from the General Secretariat of the Council and the European Commission, at the Quai d’Orsay in Paris on 1 December.
moreThe Poznań conference, organised under the auspices of the United Nations, aims to continue the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention and the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change and to further negotiations on the multilateral climate change regime beyond 2012.
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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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The French Ministry of the Interior, Overseas France and Territorial Communities (the Ministry of State for Overseas France) is organising an exhibition on "Overseas Europe: Wealth and Diversity". The exhibition is being held in Brussels from September to December 2008 in the main European institutions: the Commission, the European Parliament and the Committee of the Regions.
moreFrom 8 November to 15 December 2008 the French embassy in Portugal is opening its doors to host a contemporary art exhibition open to the public, as part of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the Temps d'Images festival.
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