Meetings of EU Commission members on 20 January 2023

President Ursula von der Leyen receives the Members of the Committee of the Permanent Representatives of the Member States to the European Union (COREPER) for a working lunch.

Mr Maroš Šefčovič in San Marino: meets with Ms Maria Luisa Berti and Mr Manuel Ciavatta, Captains Regent of San Marino; meets with Mr Luca Beccari, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Economic Cooperation and Telecommunications; meets with members of the Parliamentary Commission on Foreign Affairs; meets with representatives from the Association of Entrepreneurs and the Trade Union Organisations.

Mr Johannes Hahn in Vienna, Austria:  meets with Mr Werner Kogler, Vice-Chancellor; meets with Mr Alexander Schallenberg, Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Ms Mariya Gabriel in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria: meets with students from several schools in Blagoevgrad and from the South-West University ‘Neofit Rilski’; visits the 7 SU ‘Kuzman Shapkarev’ School.

Mr Janusz Wojciechowski in Berlin, Germany: attends official opening of the International Green Week; participates in an introductory interview opening the panel discussion on the question of ‘How can modern farming protect nature and provide food for all?’; participates in interview at the EU pavilion; hosts an EU High Level Panel on ‘Agriculture in the ‘New Normal”; meets bilaterally with several Ministers on margins of International Green Week and Global Forum For Agriculture: Mr Tetsuro Nomura, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan and also Ms Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food of Canada.

Mr Thierry Breton receives Mr Petri Salminen, President of SMEunited; delivers a keynote speech at the high-level Forum on Standardisation, in Brussels.

M Didier Reynders prononce le discours inaugural de la rentrée solennelle du Barreau de Bruxelles; s’entretient par vidéoconférence avec le ‘Club des Juristes’.

Mr Janez Lenarčič Ljubljana, Slovenia: meets Ms Nataša Pirc Musar, President.

Mr Virginijus Sinkevičius in Tallinn, Estonia: participates in the Ceremony of the Tallinn’s Green Capital 2023 and gives an opening speech at the Green Capital Conference; visits the largest biogas power plant in the Baltics, funded by the EU; participates in a roundtable meeting with maritime economy representatives; participates in a lunch with key members of the Riigikogu for environment and fisheries issues; participates in a roundtable meeting with NGOs and stakeholders of biodiversity, maritime ecology, forest preservation; meets with Ms Kaja Kallas, Prime Minister of Estonia.