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.
On the occasion of the first ministerial conference on "Green Jobs" within the framework of the European Union, held by the Belgian presidency on 28 and 29 September, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Employment Joëlle Milquet, together with the European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and inclusion, László Andor, launched a proposal for the first European plan for the creation of jobs in ‘Green sectors’ and for the "Greening" of the economy and the labour market.
In order to follow the progress of migrants in the host society and to identify the spheres in which policy measures should be taken, we must increase the availability of longitudinal data in the area of asylum and immigration. This is one of conclusions that the 150 participants drew at the conference on the “Long-term Follow-up of Migration Trajectories”, organised on 29 September by the Belgian National Contact Point of the European Migration Network (EMN).
On Monday 4 and Tuesday 5 October 2010, the prestigious premises of the Royal Palace located in the centre of Brussels will be home to the eighth Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM 8). The Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs, led by the Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Steven Vanackere, is in charge of Summit preparations.
19:29Lowlight
19:13Lowlight
13:02Lowlight
07:32Lowlight