HC Deb 28 January 1998 vol 305 c295W
Mr. Wilkinson

To ask the Minister without Portfolio if he will list those occasions since 1 May when he has met Ministers from other European Union countries and who these Ministers were. [25943]

Mr. Mandelson

In June 1997, I met Mr. Per Nuder, State Secretary in the office of the Swedish Prime Minster.

I met the French Minister for European Affairs, M Pierre Moscovici, on separate occasions in July, September, and November 1997. Also in July in Paris I met M Daniel Vaillant, French Minister for Relations with Parliament, and Mme Catherine Trautmann, Minister for Culture.

In September in Bonn I met the German Minister of State Herr Friedrich Bohl of the Bundeskanzleramt.

In Rome in October I met Onorevole Walter Veltroni, Deputy Prime Minister, Onorevole Giorgio Napolitano, Minister of the Interior, and Onorevole Pierol Fassino, Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

I also met several Italian Ministers at a dinner given by the British Ambassador in Rome; and a number of senior Spanish Ministers attended the British-Spanish Tertulias in Cambridge in November, which I also attended.