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2023 Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union

Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union
Logo of the 2023 Spanish presidency
1 July – 31 December 2023
Council of the European Union
Websitehttps://spanish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu
Presidency trio
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez (left), European Council president Charles Michel (center left), Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (center right), and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen (right) at the 3rd EU–CELAC summit in Brussels, 17 July 2023

Spain held the presidency of the Council of the European Union during the second half of 2023.[1] The presidency was the first of three presidencies making up a presidency trio, followed by the presidency of Belgium, and scheduled to be followed by that of Hungary.[2] It was the fifth time Spain had held the presidency.[1]

On the first day of the presidency, Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez took the train to Kyiv in a highly symbolic visit, where he met with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and addressed the Verkhovna Rada.[3][4][5][a] During the visit, Sánchez stated that one of the priorities of the Spanish presidency would be working with Ukraine in its bid to accede to the European Union.[7][5]

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