Evidence from the Ambassador
of the Federal Republic of Germany on the German Presidency
1. In recent years it has been our practice to
take evidence regularly from the Ambassador of each incoming presidency
country.
2. Accordingly, in this Report we make available
for the information of the House the oral evidence given to us
by His Excellency Mr Wolfgang Ischinger, Ambassador of the Federal
Republic of Germany.
3. The key topics in the evidence are:
- The CAP health check (Q 21)
- Climate change (Q 17)
- The Constitutional Treaty (QQ 3-6)
- The context of the German presidency of the European
Union (Q 1)
- The Doha Development Round (Q 14)
- Energy security (Q 18)
- Enlargement of the EU (QQ 7-10)
- The European Neighbourhood Policy (Q 20)
- The Prüm Convention (Q 19)
- The Quartet on the Middle East (QQ 15-16)
- The structure of the European presidencies (Q 2)
- The transatlantic economic relationship (QQ 12-13).
4. A supplementary memorandum appears in Appendix
1 covering the following points:
- The Berlin Declaration
- The Commission's 2007 Annual Work Programme
- Germany's Parliamentary Scrutiny of the EU
- The Prüm Convention
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