Video viEUws.eu: Pre-EU Summit Insights: What's on the table on 19 & 20 March?
EPC’s leading European politics expert Janis A. Emmanouilidis gives Lénaïc Vaudin d’Imécourt an exclusive pre-summit analysis of the European Council meeting taking place on Thursday 19 and Friday 20 March in Brussels.
Topics on the agenda of the EU heads of state and government:
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-Member States to endorse the Energy Union strategy. Among key issues to be discussed are the internal energy market and energy security.
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-EU leaders will also talk about the sanctions against Russia
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-As the March Summit is traditionally devoted to economic issues, Member States are to discuss the European Semester, the EU’s annual cycle of economic surveillance
The next European Council will be held in Brussels on 25 and 26 June 2015.
The European Policy Centre (EPC) is a Brussels-based independent think tank focusing on European integration and provides high-quality analysis on the EU policy agenda. The EPC has a strong multi-constituency approach and has a wide range of private companies, business federations, trade unions, public institutions as well as NGOs as its members.
Janis A. Emmanouilidis works for the EPC since 2009 as a Senior Policy Analyst and was recently promoted as EPC’s Director of Studies. His publications cover the EU’s overall political and institutional development, the sovereign debt crisis, EU integration, the EU’s foreign policy as well as EU enlargement. Emmanouilidis is also active as an advisor of various governments, EU institutions, European parties and NGOs.