Voorbereidingen voor overdacht voorzitterschap (en)

On 18 and 19 June the European Council presided by Prime Minister Jan Fischer i will hand over the Presidency to the succeeding country.

Prior to the hand-over, he will go on a tour of European countries, the “tour des capitales”, with whose main representatives he will discuss the concluding meeting of the Council in Brussels.

On Monday 8 June the Prime Minister visited Brussels where he met with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer i.

On Tuesday 9 June the Prime Minister met with President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso during an official breakfast, and in the afternoon he visited Germany where he met with Chancellor Angela Merkel i.

On Wednesday 10 June in Sweden Jan Fischer will meet with his counterpart Fredrik Reinfeldt i.

On Friday 12 June the Prime Minister will visit France. Nicolas Sarkozy i will meet with him in Paris.

On Monday 15 June Prime Minister Jan Fischer will meet with Gordon Brown in London.

The preparations of the European Council in June and a successful conclusion of the Czech Presidency have been among the main priorities of Prime Minister Fischer since he assumed his office.

“I assure you that my main concern is to conclude the Czech Presidency duly and without turbulence, and to continue the effective and successful leadership of Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek smoothly,” stated PM Fischer in his speech delivered at the Conference of Community and European Affairs Committees of Parliaments of the European Union (COSAC).