EU member states on Monday (13 December) agreed the list of the next EU presidencies up until the year 2020.
The current provision runs out at the end of 2006 with Luxembourg, the UK, Finland and Austria still to come.
The future presidencies are to be run in groups of three, as foreseen by the new European Constitution, with each group generally containing a large and a small member state and at least one new member state.
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