Stenbock House, 25 June 2014 – Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas will participate in the meeting of the European Council on 26 and 27 June, which will be opened with a commemoration of the outbreak of the First World War in Ypres on Thursday evening. The summit will continue in Brussels on Friday.
The main topics of the meeting are the developments in the field of justice and internal affairs of the European Union, energy security issues and the situation in Ukraine. Also, the European Union policy priorities for the next five years and the presentation of the European Commission’s President-designate to the European Parliament will be discussed.
Multi-annual strategic objectives, based on freedom, security and justice, will be determined in the field of justice and internal affairs. Recent multi-annual guidelines concerning the development of the area of justice and internal affairs (the Stockholm Programme for the years 2010–2014) were adopted in 2009. New strategic guidelines will cover border control, asylum, migration, police and judicial cooperation issues.
A mid-term review of the development of a framework for the European Union climate and energy policies for 2030 will be carried out in the field of climate and energy policy at the summit. The Council will also discuss the newly published European energy security strategy, which provides an important input for the framework. The decisions on the most urgent measures are planned in order to reduce the European Union energy dependence. Estonia supports the objectives set out in the energy security strategy and considers it important that the Baltic energy projects continue to be represented among the European top-priority projects.
The Council will also make a summary on the European Semester process of 2014 and on the European Commission’s recommendations to the Members States on structural reforms, employment policies and budgets.
It is scheduled to sign the European Union Free Trade and Association Agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine at the meeting of the Council.
More information: Villu Känd, Head of the European Union Information Unit, +372 52 754 24, [email protected]