Informal council
ECOFIN: "The first lesson from the crisis is emerging"
Interview. As the informal ECOFIN Council meeting to be held on 30 September and 1 October draws near, we met with the personality who will preside over this meeting: the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and Institutional Reforms, Didier Reynders. He is highly optimistic about the objectives that have been reached within the framework of this Presidency. Here is what he had to say in our interview.
The Research and Industry Ministers want to provide Europe with an ambitious and integrated strategy with regard to innovation
At the outcome of the joint informal meeting of the Research and Industry sections, assembled in the Competitiveness Council of the European Union, which was held this Thursday 15 July 2010 in Brussels, the Belgian Presidency wishes to highlight the following points:
The Union for Innovation
The Industry Ministers of the 27 Member States, together with Iceland and Norway, met today in Louvain-La-Neuve, under the Presidency of Walloon Minister Jean-Claude Marcourt, in an informal session, in the presence of the Vice-President of the European Commission, Mr Antonio Tajani, and the Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Mrs Marie Geoghegan-Quinn.
Informal Council of European Research Ministers
Two items will be placed on the agenda of the informal Council of European Research Ministers on 15 and 16 July in Brussels: innovation and simplification.
Informal Joint Council of European Research and Industry Ministers
The objective of this working session is to draw conclusions and recommendations in relation to the future European Research and Innovation Plan and to supplement the conclusions of the Council on this matter. During this session, the Ministers for Research and for Industry will examine the latest issues.