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.

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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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