Informal EU Summit in Finland in October

Finland will host an informal meeting of EU Heads of State or Government at Sibelius Hall in Lahti on 20th October. The European Council will not convene in Brussels in October.


Informal EU Summit will be held in Sibelius Hall in Lahti. (Photo: © Sibelius Hall)


The EU Summit will be paralleled with an extraordinary tripartite Social Summit attended by representatives from Finland, the forthcoming Presidency countries, Germany and Portugal, and European labour market organisations.

The Defence Ministers' meeting, that was to take place in Brussels on 2 and 3 October, will be organised in Levitunturi, near Kittilä, in northern Finland.

Finland will host a total of 130 meetings during the EU Presidency. The largest meetings include the Asia-Europe meeting, ASEM 6, in Helsinki, the informal meeting of Heads of State or Government in Lahti and Foreign Ministers' follow-up meeting of the Barcelona Process (EUROMED) in Tampere. In addition, there will be ten informal ministerial meetings plus a number civil servant meetings.

Finland’s six-month EU Presidency began on 1 July 2006.






Press release on Finnish Government's web site(Link to another website.) (Opens New Window)