France takes over EU Presidency for six months from January 2022

France takes over EU Presidency for six months from January 2022

• France has assumed the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union with effect from January 01, 2022.
• The country will continue to hold the EU presidency for the next six months till June 30, 2022.
• This is the 13th time that France has taken over the rotating presidency.
• The motto of France as EU President is “recovery, strength, belonging.”
• France will work to place the continent’s digitization and climate protection at the forefront.
• The presidency of EU rotates every six months among the member states of the 27-nation bloc.
• Upon the completion of six months presidency, France will be replaced by the Czech Republic.