Fabián Alarcón, President of Ecuador and Chairman of the Andean Presidential Council (on the left), meets Manuel Marín, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for External Relations.

The Organising Committee of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union publishes the programme of the second Spanish Presidency of the European Union (first semester of 1995) entitled ‘Priorities of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union’. The four major areas for action are the economic revival of Europe in a socially integrated framework, citizen participation, external relations and the planning of the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference.

Conclusions of the European Council held in Madrid on 15 and 16 December 1995 to close the second Spanish Presidency of the European Union, in which the major themes covered include employment, the single currency, the holding of an Intergovernmental Conference in 1996 for the revision of the Treaties, and the enlargement of the EU towards Central and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean.