When EU Heads of State or Government convene for an informal meeting in Brussels on Monday, 31 January, focus will be on growth and job creation. President Herman van Rompuy has called for a meeting where particularly youth unemployment, the Single Market and support to SME’s are to be discussed. These three topics will be examined with a view to exchange positive experiences and best practices between the Member States.
Commission President José Manuel Barroso and Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt will give introductory remarks about measures that should be enacted in order to create growth and jobs in Europe.
It is also the aim that the European Council registers agreement on the new treaty on stability and convergence within the euro area, which has been negotiated since the meeting of the European Council on the 9 December. The treaty is expected to be finally signed at the European Council in March 2012.