New EU meetings to be arranged in Finland during the Finnish Presidency

Government Communications Unit

Press release 214/2005
29 June 2005




The Cabinet Committee on European Union Affairs decided on Wednesday, 29 June that the eighth official foreign ministers' meeting relating to the Barcelona Process will be held in Finland during the Finnish Presidency of the EU. The Barcelona Process refers to Euro-Mediterranean Partnership formed by the EU countries, nine Mediterranean countries and the Palestinian Authority.

The Cabinet Committee on European Union Affairs decided also to organise the Copenhagen Process follow-up conference of the ministers of education and the ministerial troika meetings between the EU and Australia plus the EU and New Zealand in Finland.

The time and place of the meetings will be specified later. Finland's six-month EU Presidency will begin on 1 July 2006.

Further information: Anja Vilo, Head of the EU Presidency Secretariat, Prime Minister's Office, tel. +358 9 1602 2621