This is Saturday’s press conference with Sweden’s prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and French Presidency Nicolas Sarkozy, with translation into English. At this press conference, Reinfeldt says that there is not going to a vote on the future of Jose Manuel Barroso as president of the European Commission in the 2009-2014 period at the July session in Strasbourg. They also address other issues that will be on the EU radar in the coming months, including climate change, a carbon tax and the situation in Iran. Video streamed from the EU presidency website.
July 2009
Sweden’s European Affairs Minister Cecilia Malmström, a former member of the European Parliament, previews the second week of the Swedish EU Presidency in this video posted on YouTube.
