Road map of EU policy priorities

The ministers for EU affairs of France, the Czech Republic and Sweden have outlined a road-map of EU policy priorities for the 18-month period during which they will consecutively hold the rotating EU presidency. The seventy-page-long document includes chapters on energy and climate-change, security, labour and social issues. News of the agreement was announced by the Czech Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Alexander Vondra in Prague, following a meeting with his Swedish and French counterparts. Details of the agreement will not be disclosed until it has been debated by a summit of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on June 16th.