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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11358
Contents Publication in full By article 21 / 22
SUPPLEMENT / Europe/document n. 2594

A Luxembourg Presidency aiming to stay close to the citizen

Dossier by Camille-Cerise Gessant

I- INTRODUCTION

On 1 July, founding country Luxembourg took up the rotating presidency of the EU for the twelfth time, a decade on from its last Presidency and its first under the Treaty of Lisbon. Although, according to one European source, the Lisbon Treaty has cost the rotating Presidency some of its visibility, power and effectiveness, Foreign Affairs Minister Jean Asselborn takes the view that the Presidency is a genuine opportunity to put...