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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.

Leaders at the summit

  • Portugal Portugal and EU European Union
    • Prime Minister of Portugal and President-in-office of the Council of the European Union José Sócrates
  • Brazil Brazil
    • President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  • EU European Union
    • President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso

Participants at the dinner

  • Portugal Portugal
    • Prime Minister José Sócrates
  • Portugal Portugal
    • President Aníbal Cavaco Silva
  • Brazil Brazil
    • President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  • EU European Union
    • President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso
  • France France
    • President Nicolas Sarkozy
  • Spain Spain
    • Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
  • Italy Italy
    • Prime Minister Romano Prodi
  • Slovenia Slovenia
    • 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.

Issues concerned with a proposed trade agreement between the EU and the Mercosur group of South American countries including Brazil were also discussed.

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.

References

References

  1. [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/dv/200/200901/20090120_DMER_JointStatement_EN.pdf Second Brazil-European Union Summit Joint Statement Rio de Janeiro, 22 December, 2008] [[President of the European Commission. Presidency of the European Commission]]. Retrieved on 2009-07-17.
  2. [http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2007/07/05/european_union_seeks_out_brazil_as_a_new_trading_partner/ European Union seeks out Brazil as a new trading partner] ''The Boston Globe'', 5 July 2007
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