Outlook for the European Council meeting of 15-16 October 2020
Only two weeks after the last European Council meeting, EU Heads of State or Government gather again on 15-16 October 2020, to address future EU-UK relations, EU-Africa relations and climate change. On climate, EU leaders will evaluate the progress on the EU’s objective of climate neutrality by 2050 and hold an orientation debate. Regarding EU-UK relations, they will assess the implementation of the withdrawal agreement, receive an update on the negotiations on the future EU-UK partnership and discuss the preparatory work for all scenarios after 1 January 2021. In addition to EU-Africa relations, other external relations issues are likely to be discussed, notably the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. EU leaders will also return to the handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
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- Africa
- Asia and Oceania
- China
- climate change policy
- coronavirus disease
- economic geography
- ENVIRONMENT
- environmental policy
- epidemic
- EU institutions and European civil service
- Europe
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- European Council
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- leader of the opposition
- political geography
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- politics and public safety
- Russia
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- United Kingdom
- withdrawal from the EU