Press Release: The European Commission and the Commission of the African Union meet in Addis Ababa

The European Commission and the Commission of the African Union will meet for a joint working session at the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 2 October 2006. This meeting, the third joint session in three years time, is the latest testimony of an ever growing partnership between the two continental executive bodies. For this occasion, the European Commission will hold its first ever meeting on another continent than Europe, travelling to Ethiopia with no less than 10 Commissioners including President José Manuel Barroso, vice-Presidents Franco Frattini (Justice, Freedom and Security) and Siim Kallas (Administration), the Commissioners Louis Michel (Development and Humanitarian Aid), Peter Mandelson (Trade), Dalia Grybauskaité (Budget), Markos Kyprianou (Health), Laszlo Kovács (Taxation), Vladimir Spidla (Employment and Social Affairs) and Andris Piebalgs (Energy).

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