The Informal Meeting of Ministers and State Secretaries for European Affairs takes place once during the Presidency.
The topic of the meeting will be Strengthening Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability, reflecting the fourth strand of President Van Rompuy’s report on Economic and Monetary Union. Discussion of this issue takes on a particular importance in the context of the steps which the European Union is taking towards closer integration.
The Ministers will also hear the views of representatives of the European Parliament, the Oireachtas (Ireland's national parliament) and of the Northern Ireland Executive, as well as of the candidate countries.
The designation of 2013 as the European Year of Citizens provides an opportunity to engage in a wider public debate about the rights enjoyed by citizens of the European Union, and about the future direction of the Union.
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Lucinda Greighton, Irish Minister of State for European Affairs welcomes Ministers and State Secretaries for European Affairs |
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Handshake between Lucinda Greighton and Štefan Füle, Member of the EC in charge of Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy |
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Lucinda Greighton welcomes Ministers and State Secretaries for European Affairs |
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General view of the roundtable |
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Ministers and State Secretaries for European Affairs |
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Lithuanian delegation |
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Delegation (4 shots) |
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French delegation |
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Delegation |
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Swedish Delegation |
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Polish and Danish delegations |
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Lucinda Greighton and Stefan Füle |
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Latvian delegation |
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Cyprus delegation |
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Dutch delegation |
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General view |
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General view of the roundtable |
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Stefan Füle |
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Belgian delegation |
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Dansih delegation |
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Belgian delegation |
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Swedish delegation |
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Cyprus delegation |
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General view of the delegations (3 shots) |
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Lucinda Greighton |
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Delegations |
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Lithuanian delegation |
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Slovenian delegation |
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Stefan Füle |
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General view of the roundtable |
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Lucinda Greighton |
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European Parliament delegation |
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Stefan Füle |
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Delegation |
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UK Delegation |
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Dansih Delegation |
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General view of the roundtable |
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Lucinda Greighton receives delegations |
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Turkish delegation |
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Iceland delegation |
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Delegations |
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Montenegro delegaiton |
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Stefan Füle and the Turkish delegation |
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SOUNDBITE by Lucinda Greighton (In English) saying that: We have the second informal ministerial meeting of the Presidency taking place in Dublin Castle today and it's a meeting of the 27 Members state's European Affairs Ministers plus Europe Ministers from all of the candidate countries the inspiring candidates of the EU. The topic of discussion is primarily focused on the question of democratic legitimacy and accountability. Obviously there has been a lot of movement in the EU in the last couple of years towards deeper cooperation, scrutiny of budgets, economic coordination and so on and we want to make sure that, coupled with that there is a connexion between EU citizens and decisions that are taken on their behalf.
One interesting statistic in the last number of weeks is that only 35% of EU citizens actually feel that their voice is heard at European level so I think that we, the European Affairs Ministers have a task to try to address that to ensure that there is more transparency, more openness and more engagement of EU citizens and I think that for the Irish Presidency this is certainly a big priority and also an opportunity to start this important debate so that will be the focus of our discussions today as well as discussion on enlargement of the European Union and I think that it's very timely because it is 10 years since the EU member states committed to the European perspectives or European future for all of the western Balkans countries. That is 20 years on from war and devastation in the Balkans region and it's important now that we help those countries to find a path to European Union membership and the Irish Presidency will work towards that goal so it's a big priority for us and we will have an opportunity today to bring all of the EU member states together along with the candidate countries to discuss the challenging road ahead.
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