José Manuel Barroso, President of the EC, and the College of the EC went to Moscow to participate in an Executive to Executive (E2E) meeting with Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Prime Minister, and several Members of the Russian Government. Three agreements were signed on this occasion.
During the talks a wide range of topics were discussed, from trade to transport, from energy to mobility, from science to good governance and rule of law. The President highlighted trade as one of the pillars of EU/Russia cooperation. He added that open trade, transparent rules and rejection of protectionism were clearly part of the answer to revive global growth.