Next week, Luxembourg will take over and launch the presidencyof the Committee of Ministers of the BeNeLux Union, with Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg's Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, in his capacity as Chair of the Benelux Union Committee of Ministers, on Tuesday at the Neumünster Abbey in Luxembourg-ville.
In the presence of HE Mr. Didier Reynders, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, HE Mr. Han-Maurits Schaapveld, Ambassador of the Netherlands, the College of Secretaries General of the Benelux Union, as well as the President of the Benelux Parliamentary Assembly, Gusty Graas, the priorities of the Luxembourg Presidency of the Benelux, as well as the Benelux work plan for 2019 will be presented.
Luxembourg holds the presidency of the Benelux Committee of Ministers this year, for the third time since the entry into force of the new BeNeLux Treaty in 2012.
The 2019 Annual Plan details the concrete actions that the three countries wish to undertake in the coming months. The priorities of the Luxembourg Presidency of the Benelux Committee of Ministers are the action of the Benelux Union, which aims, through concrete projects and exemplary cross-border collaboration, to support European integration.
The presentation of the priorities of the Luxembourg Presidency of the Benelux and the 2019 work plan are to be followed by a round table on the role of the BeNeLux in a 27-member European Union, in the presence of various VIPs. This debate will be moderated by Professor Herwig Hofmann, Director of the Robert Schuman Institute of European Affairs at the University of Luxembourg.
