MEPs are meeting in Strasbourg on 17 November for another plenary session.

The third European Development Days (EDD), organised under the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, was held in Strasbourg on 15 to 17 November. It marked one of the highlights of the French Presidency in the field of development. This year’s EDD focused on the subject of local governance.

European Development Days are a major event in the European calendar. Each year they attract 3 000 participants from all the continents, representing over 1 200 organisations.

High school students from Benin focus on their country's development and the partnership between Benin and the European Union.

Under the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, three European Union film festivals are being held in Ottawa, Vancouver and Toronto.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the current President of the European Council and José Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission, welcomed Dmitri Medvedev, the President of the Russian Federation to Nice on 14 November 2008 for the EU-Russia summit, in the presence of the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner and foreign affairs ministers,  Sergei Lavrov and Bernard Kouchner.

The French Presidency has chosen Nice, a city which has strong historical ties to Russia, to host the 22nd EU-Russia Summit.

Climate change and the global economic situation are worsening the food crisis and revealing structural weaknesses. What role can the EU play?

Under the French Presidency of the European Union, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and CampusFrance organised an information day on higher education in Europe

After the consensus reached by the defence ministers in Deauville last October, a high-level seminar will be dedicated to the implementation terms of this European exchange programme.

The Cameroon-Europe Friendship Days, held in Yaounde on 12 and 13 November 2008, brought together numerous actors from civil society, politics and associations in Cameroon.

The 7th EU-Tunisia Association Council in Brussels on 11 November 2008 was an opportunity to take stock, with our Tunisian partners, of the very strong cooperation and highly confident relations enjoyed between the EU and Tunisia.

EU-SADC troika ministerial meeting on 11 November 2008 is part of dialogue maintained by the two organisations

The defence ministers of the 27 EU Member States met in Brussels on 10 November.

The General Affairs and External Relations Council of 10 and 11 November was presided over by Bernard Kouchner, the French Minister for Foreign and European Affairs.