1st EU–Brazil summit
The first summit meeting between the European Union (EU) and Brazil took place in Lisbon on 4 July 2007. At the summit, Brazil was granted special partnership status with the EU.
A second EU–Brazil summit was held in Rio de Janeiro on December 22, 2008.[1]
Leaders at the summit
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Participants at the dinner
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- Prime Minister José Sócrates
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- President Aníbal Cavaco Silva
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- President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
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- President Nicolas Sarkozy
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- Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
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- Prime Minister Romano Prodi
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- Prime Minister Janez Janša
Location
This summit took place in Lisbon, at the Pavilhão Atlântico. The dinner was offered by the Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva, at Belém Cultural Center.
Discussions
The summit aimed to establish closer relations between the European Union and Brazil. Portugal formally invited its former colony, Brazil, to be a strategic partner of the EU, along with India, Russia and China, meaning that all the BRIC countries now had special partnership status.[2]
Issues concerned with a proposed trade agreement between the EU and the Mercosur group of South American countries including Brazil were also discussed.[2]
Associated with the summit, the oil and energy corporations Galp Energia of Portugal and Petrobras of Brazil signed an agreement on production of vegetable oils in Brazil.[2]
See also
References
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- ↑ Second Brazil-European Union Summit Joint Statement Rio de Janeiro, 22 December, 2008 Presidency of the European Commission. Retrieved on 2009-07-17.
- ↑ a b c European Union seeks out Brazil as a new trading partner The Boston Globe, 5 July 2007
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External links
es:Relaciones entre Brasil y la Unión Europea pt:Relações entre Brasil e União Europeia