EUROPEAN UNION
| 18/01 - | BRUSSELS: - Agriculture and Fisheries Council. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Development Council - extraordinary meeting. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Eurogroup meeting. |
| - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: plenary session (to 21/01). |
| - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: Hearings of commissioners-designate - Antonio Tajani before the ITRE committee and Maros Sefcovic before the committee on constitutional affairs. |
| - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: committee on legal affairs. |
| - | PALMA DE MAJORCA: - 5th edition of Territorial Dialogue on Growth and Jobs, organised by the CoR. |
| 19/01 - | BRUSSELS: - Economic and Financial Affairs Council. |
| - | STRASBOURG: - Meeting of the European Commission. |
| - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: Hearings of commissioners-designate - Cecilia Malmström before the civil liberties committee and Maria Damanaki before the fisheries committee. |
| - | STRASBOURG: - EP/Plenary: Statements by Council and Commission on situation in Iran, Yemen, Iraq and on EU-Tunisia relations. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Political and Security Committee (and 20/01). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Economic and Social Committee (EESC): meeting of bureau. |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-555/07 Kücükdeveci (social policy). |
| 20/01 - | TOLEDO: Informal Justice and Home Affairs Council (JHA) (to 22/01). |
| - | STRASBOURG: - EP/Plenary: - Council statements on the programme of the Spanish EU Presidency and on SWIFT, and Council and Commission statements on the results of the Copenhagen summit and democratisation in Turkey. - Election of Ombudsman. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EESC: plenary meeting (and 21/01). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - COREPER I. |
| 21/01 - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament/Plenary: - Commission statement on Haiti earthquake. - Debates on cases of violation of human rights, democracy and rule of law ; recent attacks against religious minorities in Egypt and Malaysia ; violations of human rights in China ; - Philippines. |
| - | MADRID: - Beginning of European Year for combating poverty and social exclusion - Official launch - High level conference organised by the European Commission and the Spanish Presidency. |
| - | BARCELONA: - ARLEM Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (Committee of the Regions) - inaugural session. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - COREPER II. |
| - | Luxembourg: - Court of Justice: Rulings: C-444/07 MG Probud (areas of freedom, security and justice), C-546/07, C-17/09 Commission/Germany (free provision of services), C-311/08 SGI, C-472/08 Alstom Power Hydro (taxation), C-398/08 P Audi/OHIM (intellectual property), C-470/08 van Dijk (agriculture), and C-462/08 Bekleyen (external relations). |
| 25/01 - | BRUSSELS: - General Affairs and External Relations Council (and 26/01). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Week of committee meetings. |
OTHER EVENTS
| 18/01 - | DAKAR/SENEGAL: - Summit of Regions of World on Food Safety (and 19/01). |
| 20/01 - | LONDON: - Gas Strategy Conference - Speech by Andris Piebalgs. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Democracy's Plight in the European Neighbourhood, organised by the CEPS. |
| 21/01 - | BRUSSELS: - Failed and Failing States: Will they keep us busy in the next 20 years as they did during the last 20 years ? - organised by IES/VUB. |
| 22/01 - | BRUSSELS: - What's Wrong with Social Democracy in Europe ? - organised by the Madariaga Foundation. |
| 25/01 - | STRASBOURG: - Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: session (to 29/01). |