Brussels, 13/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - As usual, the European Council of 20 and 21 March to be preceded by the European political party summits.
In particular, Werner Hoyer's European Liberals, Democrats and Reformers will hold its summit in the morning of 20 March, with the attendance of the Belgian and Danish Prime Ministers, Guy Verhofstadt and Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and the Presidents of the European Parliament and the European Commission, Pat Cox and Romano Prodi. The Prime Ministers of certain accession countries- Anto Rop (Slovenia), Rolandas Paksas (Lithunania) and Siim Kallas (Estonia) will also be present, as will the President of the European Parliament's Liberal Group, Graham Watson.