Malmström
We are only two months into the Czech Presidency but the way EU Presidencies now fold into one another means that all of the EU institutions are constantly preparing for future presidencies as well as working closely with the current one. Today, in this context, I accompanied our President, Mario Sepi, and the (Swedish) President of the Committee’s Various Interests Group, Staffan Nilsson, in a meeting with the Swedish European Union Affairs Minister, Cecilia Malmström. The minister was an MEP for seven years and knows her way around Brussels, so this was a straight-to-the-point sort of meeting. There clearly are ways in which the EESC will work closely with the Swedish Presidency – not least in such priority areas as the Lisbon Strategy and the Union’s response to the conomic and financial crisis.
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