Published: December 19th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

The next three Council presidencies want to strengthen the EU’s external relations and border protection in particular. This emerges from the as-yet-unpublished eighteen-month program of Poland, Denmark, and Cyprus. The governments of the three member states will form the next trio presidency from January 2025 to June 2026, which will always have a joint program.