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  • ENVIEnvironment (ENVI)

Last ENVI Council to take place in Luxembourg (12.06.2014)

12 Jun, 2014

The last under Greek Presidency Environment Council, chaired by Greek Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Yiannis Maniatis, is taking place in Luxembourg on 12 June. The Council is expected to reach political agreement on a draft directive amending directive 2001/18/EC as regards the possibility for member states to restrict or prohibit the cultivation of genetically modified organisms within their territory.

  • FACForeign Affairs (FAC)

Third European Union - League of Arab States Foreign Affairs Ministerial Meeting adopts Declaration

11 Jun, 2014

The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the European Union (EU) and of the League of Arab States (LAS) gathered in Athens, on 10-11 June, for the Third Ministerial Meeting between the EU and LAS.

  • GACGeneral Affairs (GAC)

Important agreement on the new nuclear safety Directive achieved

11 Jun, 2014

A commonly accepted, by the member states and the European Commission, agreement on the text amending the Community framework for nuclear safety (2009/71/EURATOM) was endorsed today by the Permanent Representatives Committee of the Council. The agreement for this new Directive was reached under the Greek Presidency, after delicate and strenuous negotiation, since the safety of nuclear installations is for member states an important matter of national sovereignty.
 
  • EYCSEducation, Youth, Culture & Sport (EYCS)

First World War: Europe looks into its past through Europeana

10 Jun, 2014

Europe commemorates this year the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War (1914-1918) – a watershed in the continent’s history that ushered it into what Eric Hobsbawm has termed “the short twentieth century”. This was a war that tore Europe apart, as no European nation was left untouched.  But it was the ordinary men and women who were affected the most.

  • JHAJustice & Home Affairs (JHA)

Greek Presidency reaches agreement on Data Protection, Insolvency (Luxembourg, 06.06.2014)

06 Jun, 2014

During the last formal Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council under the Greek Presidency, EU Justice Ministers achieved a partial general approach on the Data Protection Regulation. The Council also agreed on a Regulation modernising cross-border insolvency rules and on strengthening procedural safeguards for children involved in criminal proceedings. The meeting on 6 June in Luxembourg was chaired by Greek Minister of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights, Charalampos Athanasiou.

  • TTETransport, Telecommunications and Energy (TTE)

Networks and information security topped the agenda of the Council οf Telecommunications Ministers (Luxembourg, 6.06.2014)

06 Jun, 2014

Today, 6 June 2014, a meeting of the Council of EU Ministers for Telecommunications took place in Luxembourg, chaired by Greek Deputy Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks, Michalis Papadopoulos.

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