EU-Brazil Summit, Stockholm - Main contents
| date | October 6, 2009 |
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| city | Stockholm, Summit, Sweden |
| location | Stockholm, Sweden  |
| attending | J.M. (José) Barroso i, B. (Benita) Ferrero-Waldner i, J.F. (Fredrik) Reinfeldt i et al. |
| organisation | European Commission (EC) i |
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, in his capacity as President of the Council of the European Union, will host an EU summit with President Lula of Brazil in Stockholm.
The main issues that are expected to be discussed at the summit are climate change and the global financial and economic crisis.
The meeting will be the third EU-Brazil summit within the framework of the strategic partnership established at the first summit in Lisbon in July 2007.
On the day before the summit, 5 October, a bilateral meeting between Sweden and Brazil was held.
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