EUROPEAN UNION
| 11/01 - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: hearings of Catherine Ashton (for the post of High Representative and Vice-President of the Commission) with the foreign affairs committee (AFET), of Commissioners-designate: Janusz Lewandowski with the budgets committee (BUDG+ CONT), Andris Piebalgs with the development committee (DEVE), Olli Rehn with the economic and monetary affairs committee (ECON) |
| 12/01 - | LA GRANJA/SEGOVIA: - Informal meeting of European affairs ministers (until 14/01) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: hearings of Commissioners-designate: Karel De Gucht with the international trade committee (INTA), Algirdas Šemeta with the budgetary control committee (CONT + ECON, IMCO), Stefan Füle with the AFET committee, and Viviane Reding with the legal affairs committee (JURI + LIBE, FEMM); Rumiana Jeleva with the DEVE committee and Joaquin Almunia with ECON |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Political and Security Committee (and 15/01) |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: ruling C-229/08 Wolf, ruling C-341/08 Petersen (social pol.) |
| 13/01 - | BRUSSELS: - EP: hearings of Janez Potocnik with the ENVI committee, Laszlo Andor with the employment committee (EMPL); Maire Geoghegan-Quinn with the industry committee (ITRE) and Michel Barnier with the internal market committee (IMCO + ECON) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: meetings of the political groups to prepare for the plenary session |
| - | BRUSSELS: - COREPER I and COREPER II |
| 14/01 - | SEVILLE: - Informal meeting of environment and energy ministers (until17/01) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: hearings of Günther H. Oettinger with ITRE, Siim Kallas with the TRAN committee; Androulla Vassiliou with the culture committee (CULT + EMPL) and John Dalli with ENVI (+ IMCO), Neelie Kroes with ITRE (+ CULT) and Johannes Hahn with the regional development committee (REGI) |
| - | SEVILLE: - Public Hearing and meeting of the study group on “Innovation Policy” organised jointly by the ESSC and the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (and 15/01) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Inaugural meeting of the new social dialogue committee in the metallurgical, engineering and technological industries |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: ruling C-343/08 Commission/Czech Republic, ruling joint cases C-471/07-C-472/07 AGIM (social policy), ruling joint cases C-447/08 Sjöberg-C-448/08 Gerdin (free provision of services), joint cases C-430/08 Terex Equipment-C-431/08 FG Wilson (Engineering) and Caterpillar (Customs Union), ruling C-233/08 Kyrian (approximation of laws), ruling C-226/08 Stadt Papenburg, ruling C-304/08 Plus Warenhandelsgesellschaft (environment) |
| - | FRANKFURT: - ECB: Governing Council of the European Central Bank |
| 15/01 - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: hearings of Connie Hedegaard with the ENVI committee and Dacian Ciolos with the agriculture committee |
| 18/01 - | BRUSSELS: - Agriculture and Fisheries Council |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Eurogroup meeting |
| - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: plenary session (until 21/01) |
| - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: hearings of Antonio Tajani with the ITRE committee and Maros Sefcovic with the constitutional affairs committee (AFCO + CONT) |
| 19/01 - | BRUSSELS: - Economic and Financial Affairs Council |
| - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: hearings of Cecilia Malmström with the civil liberties committee (LIBE) and Maria Damanaki with the fisheries committee |
OTHER EVENTS
| 11/01 - | ATHENS: - International conference on the rights of Roma women (Council of Europe) (and 12/01) |
| 12/01 - | BRUSSELS: - Forum on the state of the Union as seen by nine think tanks |
| 13/01 - | BRUSSELS: - Stockholm programme and European citizen - assessment and prospects for its implementation (organised by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung) |
| 18/01 - | DAKAR/SENEGAL: - Summit of the World's Regions on “Agriculture, access to food, nutrition: the regions acting against the food crisis” (until 20/01) |