Sweden Takes Over EU Presidency
(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) BRUSSELS, Jan 1 (KUNA) -- Sweden takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union on Sunday for a six-month period from the Czech Republic.
It will be Sweden's third Presidency of the Council of the EU.
Sweden has chosen a motto of three key concepts to summarize its priorities during the EU presidency:? 'Safer, Greener, Freer'.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson in a message published on the Swedish EU presidency website said, 'In this troubling time, Sweden is taking over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. '
'This is a serious responsibility. The Union that has become synonymous with peace, freedom and trade is now living alongside the kind of war that once created the very need for the EU. The war will have decisive repercussions for the Swedish Presidency,' he said.
The primary task for our Presidency will therefore be to help ensure Europe's security, he noted.
Swedish ministers and officials will chair a couple of thousand meetings in Brussels and Luxembourg.
Many more thousands of European colleagues - politicians, experts, journalists - will visit Sweden for the more than 150 meetings being held here. Some 55 of these meetings will take place in locations throughout the country, from Malmo to Kiruna, he added. (end)
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