Who is who
Informal meeting of EU Foreign Ministers (Gymnich), Vienna 30 – 31 August 2018
Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2 0 1 8 W h o i s w h o
Imprint
Event: Informal meeting of EU Foreign Ministers (Gymnich)
Date, Time: 30 - 31 August 2018, from 14:15 to 22:00; 08:30 to 15:15
Venue: Hofburg Heldenplatz, 1014 Vienna
Host: Federal ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs
In co-operation with: European Commission, European External Action Service
Editor: Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
Version: 24 August 2018
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Who is who
Hosts
EUROPEAN EXTERNAL ACTION SERVICE (EEAS)
Federica Mogherini
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the Commission
AUSTRIA
Karin Kneissl
Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs
EU – Members States
BELGIUM
Didier Reynders
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Affairs
BULGARIA
Ekaterina Zaharieva
Deputy Prime Minister for Judicial Reform and Minister of Foreign Affairs
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CZECH REPUBLIC
Jan Hamáček
First deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, with responsibility for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
DENMARK
Anders Samuelsen
Minister for Foreign Affairs
GERMANY
Heiko Maas
Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs
ESTONIA
Sven Mikser
Minister for Foreign Affairs
IRELAND
Simon Coveney
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade
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GREECE
Nikos Kotzias
Minister of Foreign Affairs
SPAIN
Josep Borrell Fontelles
Minister of Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Cooperation
FRANCE
Jean-Yves Le Drian
Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs
CROATIA
Marija Pejčinović Burić
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
ITALY
Enzo Moavero Milanesi
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
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CYPRUS
Nikos Christodoulides
Minister of Foreign Affairs
LATVIA
Edgars Rinkēvičs
Minister of Foreign Affairs
LITHUANIA
Neris Germanas
Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs
LUXEMBOURG
Jean Asselborn
Ministеr of Foreign and European Affairs
Minister of Immigration and Asylum
HUNGARY
Péter Szijjártó
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade
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MALTA
Carmelo Abela
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion
NETHERLANDS
Stef Blok
Minister of Foreign Affairs
POLAND
Jacek Czaputowicz
Minister of Foreign Affairs
PORTUGAL
Ana Paula Zacarias
Secretary of State for European Affairs
ROMANIA
Teodor-Viorel Meleşcanu
Minister for Foreign Affairs
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SLOVENIA
Karl Erjavec
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
SLOVAKIA
Lukáš Parízek
State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
FINLAND
Timo Soini
Minister of Foreign Affairs
SWEDEN
Annika Söder
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs
UNITED KINGDOM
Jeremy Hunt
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
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Candidate Countries
TURKEY
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu
Minister of Foreign Affairs
FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Nikola Dimitrov
Minister of Foreign Affairs
MONTENEGRO
Srdjan Darmanović
Minister of Foreign Affairs
ALBANIA
Ditmir Bushati
Minister of Foreign Affairs
SERBIA
Ivica Dačić
First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
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EU - Institutions
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Johannes Hahn
European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations
COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS (AFET), EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
David McAllister
Chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee
GENERAL SECRETARIAT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE EU (GSC)
Leonardo Schiavo
Director-General
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Photo Credits
Hosts
Mogherini © Bucharest Forum
Kneissl © photonews.at/Georges Schneider
EU – Member States
Reynders © Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation
Zaharieva © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Hamáček © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Maas © Susie Knoll
Samuelsen © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mikser © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Coveney © Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Kotzias © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Borrell Fontelles © PSOE
De Rivière © Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
Pejčinović Burić © Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
Moavero Milanesi © Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Christodoulides © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Rinkēvičs © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Germanas © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Asselborn © SIP / Yves Kortum
Szijjártó © Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Abela © Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion
Blok © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Czaputowicz © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Zacarias © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Meleşcanu © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Erjavec © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Parízek © Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
Soini © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Söder © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Hunt © Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Candidate Countries
Çavuşoğlu © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Dimitrov © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Darmanović © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Bushati © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Dacić © Ministry of Foreign Affairs
EU - Institutions
Hahn © European Commission
McAllister © European Parliament
Schiavo © European Commission
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