The Seminar on" The European Model: External Relations of the EU" was holding from 13 to 14 September 2006 in Beijing by the political research group. In addition to all the members of the research group, an European cooperative researcher——Professor Berthold Rittberger coming from Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany, researchers from the Institute of Latin American Studies of CASS and professors from other universities attended the discussion.