On 2 October, the Chaplain-President, in his capacity as Bishop Robert's adviser for EU affairs (and who is also vice-moderator of the General Assembly of the CEC), met the new General Secretary of the Conference of European Churches, Pastor Frank-Dieter Fischbach, at his office next to the European Commission in Brussels. They had a warm and long discussion on various pressing issues which face the Anglican Churches in the EU as well as the Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox and Old Catholic Churches represented by the CEC.