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Prime Minister Sipilä to European Council meeting

Government Communications Department
Publication date 26.4.2017 11.00 | Published in English on 26.4.2017 at 13.01
Press release 184/2017

Prime Minister Juha Sipilä will attend the special European Council on 29 April in Brussels. The special European Council, in an EU 27 format, will adopt the guidelines for the Brexit negotiations with the United Kingdom. The guidelines will define the framework for negotiations and set out the overall EU positions and principles to be followed during the Brexit negotiations. The positions concerning the details of the relations between the Union and the United Kingdom, possible transitional arrangements, and internal matters of the EU27 resulting from Brexit will be adopted later on.

In the negotiation on the Brexit agreement the priority objective for Finland is to preserve the Finnish interests and make sure that the Union of 27 continues to act as one.

Inquiries: Kare Halonen, State Secretary, EU Affairs, tel. +358 295 160 319, Riikka Pakarinen, Special Adviser (EU Affairs), tel. +358 40 580 0833 and Anne Sjöholm, Head of Communications for EU Affairs, tel. +358 40 537 0733, Prime Minister’s Office