Czech, French and Swedish Ministers meet to discuss EU strategy

Minister Vondra met with his French and Swedish counterparts in Prague on Wednesday, in a meeting to decide upon joint-policy for the 3 countries' successive EU presidencies. The Czechs will be taking the presidency on from the French at the beginning of 2009, while the Swedes will take over from the Czechs at the helm of the EU in July 2009. The French State Secretary of European Affairs, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Czech Minister for Europe, Alexandr Vondra, and the Swedish Foreign and European Ministers, decided that they would make the implementation of EU reforms the joint aim of their respective presidencies. The ministers will meet again in Luxembourg in mid-October, to further discuss proposals.