EU Presidency to receive President Mahmoud Abbas on 2 March 2005 in Brussels
01-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Marie-Josée Jacobs at the UN: Equality between men and women – a political objective to be reached
01-03-2005 • Press Release • Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs

François Biltgen and Janez Potocnik discussed the agenda of the "Research" component for the forthcoming meetings of the "Competitiveness" Council
01-03-2005 • Press Release • Competitiveness (Internal market, Industry and Research) Competitiveness (Internal market, Industry and Research)

EU and Russia launch human rights consultations
01-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Jean-Claude Juncker meets Dutch Finance Minister Gerrit Zalm
01-03-2005 • Press Release • Economic and Financial Affairs Economic and Financial Affairs

EU Presidency and President Abbas discuss international assistance to Palestinian reform efforts
02-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

EU makes new commitments to improve the quality of aid
03-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Nicolas Schmit: "The success of the Lisbon Agenda is a challenge of solidarity, stability and territorial cohesion"
03-03-2005 • Press Release • Competitiveness (Internal market, Industry and Research) Competitiveness (Internal market, Industry and Research)

François Biltgen: "We remain totally committed to Social Europe"
03-03-2005 • Press Release • Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs

The main subjects of the Competitiveness Council of 7 March 2005
04-03-2005 • Press Release • Competitiveness (Internal market, Industry and Research) Competitiveness (Internal market, Industry and Research)

EU-Turkey Ministerial Meeting to take place in Ankara on 7 March 2005
04-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Meetings of the Eurogroup and "Economic and Financial Affairs" Council in Brussels on 7 and 8 March 2005
04-03-2005 • Press Release • Economic and Financial Affairs Economic and Financial Affairs

Jeannot Krecké: "An internal market for services is of vital importance"
07-03-2005 • Press Release • Competitiveness (Internal market, Industry and Research) Competitiveness (Internal market, Industry and Research)

Luc Frieden at the European Union Institute for Security Studies: Coherence and partnerships to counter terrorism
07-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Jean Asselborn in favour of continuing efforts aimed at the reunification of Cyprus
07-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Nicolas Schmit meets his Swedish counterpart
07-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

49th session of the Commission on the Status of Women – review of the Beijing Platform for Action
07-03-2005 • Press Release • Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs

Jeannot Krecké welcomes the European Parliament’s adoption of the directive on unfair commercial practices
07-03-2005 • Press Release • Competitiveness (Internal market, Industry and Research) Competitiveness (Internal market, Industry and Research)

Turkey's progress in its rapprochement with the European Union at the centre of talks between the EU and Turkey in Ankara
07-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Statement by the EU Troika following incidents during a women's rights demonstration in Istanbul on 6 March 2005
07-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Marie Josée Jacobs welcomes the creation of the European Gender Equality Institute
08-03-2005 • Press Release • Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs

Meetings of the Eurogroup and the "Economic and Financial Affairs" Council: No agreement on the reform of the stability and growth pact
08-03-2005 • Press Release • Economic and Financial Affairs Economic and Financial Affairs

Nicolas Schmit at the plenary session of the European Parliament: The Non-Proliferation Treaty and Lebanon
08-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Jean Asselborn to co-preside EU-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Jakarta on 10 March 2005
09-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Nicolas Schmit: "Succeeding in the relaunch of the Lisbon Strategy without being able to reach an agreement on a serious adaptation of the Stability and Growth Pact would be futile."
09-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Nicolas Schmit meets the Cuban Minister for Foreign Affairs, Felipe Perez Roque
09-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Ministerial Meeting between the EU Troika and Indonesia to take place in Jakarta on 10 March 2005
09-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Environment Council on 10 March 2005
09-03-2005 • Press Release • Environment Environment

Declaration by the "Justice and Home Affairs" Council on the first anniversary marking the terrorist attacks in Madrid: "No to terrorism, yes to a European Union as guarantor of freedom and democracy"
10-03-2005 • Press Release • Justice and Home Affairs Justice and Home Affairs

Lucien Lux welcomes the "Environment" Council’s agreement on climate change: "It is an agreement on a very important issue for the present and above all the future of our planet"
10-03-2005 • Press Release • Environment Environment

Jean-Claude Juncker at the international conference on terrorism, democracy and security in Madrid
10-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

The European Union and ASEAN agree to strengthen their bilateral cooperation
10-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

François Biltgen: “Partnership through globalisation"
11-03-2005 • Press Release • Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs

Jean-Claude Juncker meets Silvio Berlusconi in Rome
11-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Symposium on "The changing European classroom - the potential of plurilingual education" on 10 and 11 March 2005
11-03-2005 • Press Release • Education, Youth and Culture Education, Youth and Culture

Political meetings of the current President of the European Council, Jean-Claude Juncker, in Madrid
11-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Octavie Modert at the Ministerial Meeting on Fisheries of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
12-03-2005 • Press Release • Agriculture and Fisheries Agriculture and Fisheries

Exchange of views on the ESDP between Luc Frieden and the chairpersons of the Foreign Affairs Committees of the national parliaments of the Member States of the European Union, the European Parliament and Candidate States
14-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Ministers for Agriculture discuss rural development and give the go-ahead to the Community Fisheries Control Agency
14-03-2005 • Press Release • Agriculture and Fisheries Agriculture and Fisheries

Jean Asselborn for better integration of the Human Rights dimension into the United Nations system
14-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Jean-Louis Schiltz speaks at the meeting of the Presidents of the Commissions of Foreign Affairs of the EU Parliaments: "If we want to achieve the Millennium Objectives, Member States will have to increase their Official Development Aid"
14-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Jean-Louis Schiltz: "Everything must be done to ensure the implementation and compliance with humanitarian law"
14-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Octavie Modert at the FAO Ministerial Meeting on Forests
14-03-2005 • Press Release • Agriculture and Fisheries Agriculture and Fisheries

Jean-Claude Juncker answered questions on issues of current interest from the chairpersons of the Foreign Affairs Committees of national parliaments of the European Union, from the Candidate Countries and from the European Parliament
14-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

European action platform "diet, physical activity and health": combating the obesity phenomenon in Europe
15-03-2005 • Press Release • Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs

General Affairs and External Relations Council in Brussels on 16-17 March
15-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Program of the informal meeting of Ministers of Defense - 18 March 2005
16-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Jean Asselborn reaffirms "strong EU support for a sovereign, independent and democratic Lebanon"
16-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Council postpones the opening of accession negotiations with Croatia
16-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

The EU wishes to put an end to the violence and impunity in Darfour
16-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Participation of Lucien Lux and Jean-Louis Schiltz in the ministerial meeting of the G8 in Derbyshire (United Kingdom)
16-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

EU continues negotiations with Iran
16-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

The Presidency remains committed to respecting the deadline of 1 April for the entry into force of the new GSP regime
16-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Negotiations between the EU and Russia in the area of plant health resulted in an agreement that will allow the export of plant products to Russia
16-03-2005 • Press Release • Agriculture and Fisheries Agriculture and Fisheries

The executive committee of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) met on 16 March 2005, with the participation of Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, current President of the European Council
17-03-2005 • Press Release • Economic and Financial Affairs Economic and Financial Affairs

Jean-Claude Juncker meets his Greek counterpart, Kostas Karamanlis
17-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Jean Asselborn meets Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing
17-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Jeannot Krecké's comments on the results of the "Competitiveness" Council
17-03-2005 • Press Release • Competitiveness (Internal market, Industry and Research) Competitiveness (Internal market, Industry and Research)

Extraordinary meetings of the Eurogroup and the enlarged Eurogroup in Brussels
18-03-2005 • Press Release • Economic and Financial Affairs Economic and Financial Affairs

Invitation by the President of the European Council sent to the Heads of State or Government regarding the agenda of the European Council on 22-23 March
18-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

The European Union progresses in making 13 tactical battlegroups operational for 2010
18-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Luc Frieden: "The ESDP has a supporting role in the area of prevention and protection in the fight against terrorism"
18-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Luc Frieden: "If we cannot stabilise the Western Balkans, we will suffer the effects at home"
18-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Luc Frieden: "The European Union is a credible actor in Sudan"
18-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Frieden discusses the role of military resources in natural disasters, in developmental aid and humanitarian aid in post-conflict situations
18-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Lucien Lux and Jean-Louis Schiltz underline the important links between the environment and development following the G-8 ministerial meeting
21-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Agenda of the European Council on 22 and 23 March 2005
21-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Tripartite social summit for growth and employment
21-03-2005 • Press Release • Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs

Agreement on the reform of the Stability and Growth Pact
21-03-2005 • Press Release • Economic and Financial Affairs Economic and Financial Affairs

International Contact Group on the Mano River Basin, Region of West Africa
21-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Jean-Claude Juncker comments on the agreement reached on the Stability and Growth Pact at the European Council
22-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Tripartite Social Summit for Growth and Employment
22-03-2005 • Press Release • Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs

Statement by the Luxembourg Presidency on behalf of the European Union regarding the Human Rights situation in Zimbabwe
23-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Statement by the Luxembourg Presidency on behalf of the European Union regarding the Human Rights situation in Chechnya
23-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

European Council agrees on a drafting of the directive on the opening of the services market respectful of the European social model
23-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Jean-Claude Juncker on the Lisbon Strategy: ”What Europeans really want is work”
23-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

European Council supports creation of task force for Croatia
23-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Jean Asselborn pays official visit to Slovenia
24-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Jean Asselborn to pay official visit to Slovenia on 24 March 2005
24-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

EU-Ukraine Ministerial Meeting to take place in Kiev on 30 March 2005
29-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

François Biltgen receives a delegation from the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
30-03-2005 • Press Release • Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs

Earthquake in Indonesia
30-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Informal meeting of Governors of the Member States of the EU at the World Bank attended by Paul Wolfowitz, US candidate for the chairmanship
30-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Jean Asselborn in Kiev: EU support for the economic and political reform process in Ukraine
30-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Jean Asselborn meets Kastriot Islami, Albanian Minister for Foreign Affairs
31-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

Euro-Mediterranean Civil Forum, 1-3 April in Luxembourg
31-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations

EU-Russia Permanent Partnership Council to take place in Luxembourg on 1 April 2005
31-03-2005 • Press Release • General Affairs and External Relations