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Meetings of EU Commission Members on 17 March 2025
17 March
President Ursula von der Leyen participates in the 9th Brussels Conference on Syria; receives Mr Bart De Wever, Prime Minister of Belgium .
Mr Stéphane Séjourné receives Ms Ebba Busch, Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden; receives Mr Peter Leibinger, President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI).
Ms Kaja Kallas receives Mr Jasem Mohamed Albudaiwi, Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council; receives Mr Abdallah Bou Habib, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Lebanon; receives Mr Ndaba Gaolathe, Vice-President of Botswana.
Ms Roxana Mînzatu receives Ms Athena Michaelidou, Minister for Education, Sport and Youth of Cyprus; receives representatives from Child Rights Action Group.
Mr Maroš Šefčovič participates in the meeting of the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly; receives Mr Nick Thomas Symonds, Minister for the Cabinet Office (Minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations) of the United Kingdom; receives Mr Peter Leibinger, President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI); receives Mr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of State for Foreign Trade of the United Arab Emirates.
Mr Valdis Dombrovskis participates via video conference in the G7 Ministerial meeting; receives Mr Peter Leibinger, President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI); receives together Mr Ulrich Reuter, President and Ms Karolin Schriever, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband (DSGV); receives Ms Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Mr Wopke Hoekstra receives Mr Vladimir Dlouhý, President of Eurochambres; receives Mr Peter Leibinger, President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI); meets, via videoconference, with Ms Marina Silva, Minister for the Environment and Climate Change of Brazil; receives Ms Willemien Terpstra, CEO of Gasunie; receives Mr Jon Morrish, Member of the Managing Board of Heidelberg Materials.
Mr Jozef Síkela in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: meets with high-level government representatives; in Tashkent, Uzbekistan: meets with high-level government representatives; visits the Almalyk Mining and Metallurgical Complex with high-level government representatives.
Mr Costas Kadis receives representatives of Oceana; receives representatives of the Pew Charitable Trusts; receives Ms Athena Michaelidou, Minister of Education, Sport and Youth of the Republic of Cyprus.
Maria Luís Albuquerque receives Dr. Ulrich Reuter, President, and Ms Karolin Schriever, Executive Board Member of Deutscher Sparkassen und Giroverband; receives Mr Nikhil Rathi, CEO of Financial Conduct Authority; receives Mr Ahmed bin Ali Al Sayegh, Minister of State for Economic and Trade Affairs of the United Arab Emirates and Mr Saeed Mubarak Al Hajeri, Assistant Minister for Economic and Trade Affairs of the United Arab Emirates; delivers a speech at the Celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Belgian Money Week, organised by Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA).
Ms Hadja Lahbib receives Mr Achim Steiner, UN Development Programme Administrator
Mr Magnus Brunner in Vienna, Austria: meets with Mr Christian Stocker, Federal Chancellor of Austria; meets with Mr Harald Mahrer, President of the Federal Economic Chamber of Austria; meets with Mr Peter Hanke, Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology of Austria; meets with Mr Andreas Babler, Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for Housing, Art, Culture, Media and Sports of Austria; meets with Ms Claudia Plakolm, Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Youth, EU and Integration of Austria; meets with Ms Anna Sporrer, Federal Minister for Justice of Austria.
Ms Jessika Roswall in Stockholm, Sweden: participates in a meeting hosted by the Boston Consulting Group; meets with Mr Tomas Lundmark, Board Member and Ms Maria Hedblom, Chief Executive Officer of the World Forest Forum Foundation.
Mr Piotr Serafin receives Mr Ferenc Biró, President of the Integrity Authority of Hungary; receives Ms Esther Lynch, General Secretary of European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC); receives Mr Vladimír Dlouhý, President of Eurochambres.
Ms Ekaterina Zaharieva receives Mr Peter Leibinger, President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI).
Mr Apostolos Tzitzikostas in Warsaw, Poland: meets with Mr Rafał Trzaskowski, Mayor of Warsaw; meets with Mr Dariusz Klimczak, Minister for Infrastructure.
Mr Christophe Hansen receives members of the European Liaison Committee for Agricultural and Agri-Food Trade (CELCAA); receives Ms Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Mr Glenn Micallef attends the launch of the manual ‘National Consultation Process on Children and Armed Conflict’; receives Ms Anita Debaere, Director at Pearle* Live Performance Europe.
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- 17 March
- Event Categories:
- EU Commission, EVENT, IEU AGENDA
- Event Tags:
- EU Commission members
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