The first summit meeting between the European Union (EU) and Brazil took place in Lisbon on 4 July 2007.
The dinner was offered by the Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva, at Belém Cultural Center.
The summit aimed to establish closer relations between the European Union and Brazil.
Portugal formally invited its former colony, Brazil, to be a strategic partner of the EU, along with India, Russia and China, meaning that all the BRIC countries now had special partnership status.
[1] Issues concerned with a proposed trade agreement between the EU and the Mercosur group of South American countries including Brazil were also discussed.