Press Release: EU holds first Summit with Brazil

The EU, represented by the President of the Commission José Manuel Barroso and Portuguese Prime Minister José Socrates, and Brazil, represented by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, will meet in their first ever Summit in Lisbon on 4 July 2007 to launch Strategic Partnership. The Summit will be for the EU the occasion to engage with Brazil in a broader dialogue on global, regional and bilateral issues of common strategic interest and to discuss how to build up the Strategic Partnership, on the basis of the Commission’s proposal of 30 May 2007. Commissioners for External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy Benita Ferrero-Waldner and Trade Peter Mandelson, the Secretary General of the Council Javier Solana, Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs Luis Filipe Marques Amado and Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs Celso Luiz Amorim will also participate.