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Here is the calendar of the Belgian Presidency

(B2) The Spanish Presidency ends. And the Belgian presidency is coming. On your agenda, you can already note some dates.
First of all, the traditional informal meeting, on October 18 and 19 in Ghent and the meeting of Defense Ministers on November 22-23 in Brussels. On the foreign affairs side, there are 5 x meetings of ministers planned: 19 or 26 July, 10 and 11 September (informal Gymnich in Brussels), 25 October (in Luxembourg), 22-23 November, 13 December.

An informal COPS will be held on 15 and 16 July in Brussels and the traditional trip of Political & Security ambassadors" will take place this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo, from 9 to 13 October. The European Councils are scheduled for 16 October and 17 December .

As topics for other meetings, noteworthy: permanent structured cooperation (seminar on 13 July), civilian CSDP (high-level seminar on 15 July and seminar on 27 October), a summer school on CSDP (17 and 18 September), defense industry (seminar on 13 October), EU Battlegroups (meeting + conference on 13 and 14 October), air and maritime rapid reaction (conference on 12 October), prevention of conflicts (forum November 4 and 5), Etc...

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Documents:

The general calendar To download here

Key dates in terms of common security and defense policy, CSDP download here.

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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