Deputy PM meets Prime Minister Fillon of France
13 January 2011
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has met the French Prime Minister François Fillon at 10 Downing Street.
Discussions were wide-ranging and covered issues including UK-French trade and building on the success of the UK-French Summit last year.
Following the meeting, Mr Clegg said:
I am pleased to join the Prime Minister in welcoming M Fillon to London. We discussed a range of bilateral issues including deepening UK-French trade, science, energy and education links, building on the successful UK-France Summit. We also had productive talks on the European economy and how to generate stronger European growth as well as a number of foreign policy priorities.
"Relations between the UK and France have an enormously significant and colourful history, and I look forward to ever-closer co-operation in the future."
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