Press Release: EU-Brazil Summit – consolidating the Strategic Partnership

The EU and Brazil will meet at the highest level on the occasion of the 5th EU-Brazil Summit that will take place in Brussels on 4 October.

The Summit’s agenda covers cover global, regional and bilateral issues. Leaders will be discussing, among other issues, climate change and the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, the international financial and economic situation and the G20 process, cooperation in the multilateral context and human rights, energy, Mercosur and the on-going negotiations for an EU-Mercosur Association Agreement, and investment and trade.

Leaders will also exchange views on the political situation in some regions of the world, like North Africa and the Middle East.

European Commission: Memo/11/651: EU-Brazil relations http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/11/651&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: Press Release: IP/11/1152: Culture: EU and Brazil sign agreement to step up cooperation http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1152&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: Speech/11/631: Karel De Gucht: The State of Play of the EU-Mercosur Trade Negotiations http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/11/631&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: Speech/11/630: José Manuel Durão Barroso: Press statement by President Durão Barroso after the EU-Brazil summit http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/11/630&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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