EUROPEAN UNION
| 25/01 - | BRUSSELS: - General Affairs Council and Foreign Affairs Council (also 26/01) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Committee meetings: Environment (until 28); Transport (until 27); Regional Development (also 26); Culture and Education (also 26); Constitutional Affairs; Women's Rights; Budgetary Control - special hearing (until 28); Human Rights Sub-Committee. - Spanish ministers to address the committees (until 28/01) |
| 26/01 - | BRUSSELS: - On the fringes of the General Affairs Council - Political dialogue among EU and Serbian ministers. - Meeting of EU ministers with president of OSCE. - Meeting of EU and Cape Verde ministers |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Committee meetings: Budgets (also 27), Economic and Financial Affairs (also 27); Internal Market (also 27); Employment (also 27); Agriculture (also 27); Civil Liberties (also 27) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Policy and Security Committee (also 29/01) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EESC: Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship Section |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: - Ruling C-118/08 Transportes Urbanos y Servicios Generales (EU law), Ruling C-362/08 P Internationaler Hilfsfonds/Commission (institutional law) |
| 27/01 - | BARCELONA: - Meeting of EU employment, social affairs, health and consumer issues ministers (until 29/01) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission |
| - | BRUSSELS: - COREPER I and COREPER II |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Committee meetings: Industry (also 28); Fisheries (also 28); Legal Affairs (also 28); and Petitions (also 28) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EESC: Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and Information Society Section |
| 28/01 - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Third public hearing on social impact of the economic crisis |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EESC: Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment Section |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-264/08 Direct Parcel Distribution Belgium (customs union), Ruling C-333/08 Commission/France (free circulation of goods), Ruling C-406/08 Uniplex (UK), Ruling C-456/08 Commission/Ireland (company law) and Ruling C-473/08 Eulitz (taxation) |
OTHER EVENTS
| 25/01 - | STRASBOURG: - Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (until 29/01) |
| 26/01 - | MADRID: - High-level European conference on biodiversity after 2010 (also 27/01) |
| 27/01 - | DAVOS: - World Economic Forum (until 31/01) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - “Implementing the Lisbon Treaty - challenges and opportunities,” event organised by the European Policy Centre |
| - | BRUSSELS: - “Women, peace and security,” event organised by the Security and Defence Agenda |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Lunchtime debate on nuclear energy organised by Confrontations Europe |
| 28/01 - | LONDON: - Conference on the future of Afghanistan |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Viviane Reding addresses EP on “Data Protection: the challenges ahead” on Data Protection Day |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting to set up BEREC (Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications) - Speech by Viviane Reding on “A great moment for Europe's single telecoms market: European Telecoms body comes into being” |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EPC holds final event in European citizen consultations |
| - | PARIS: - “États et entreprises dans la mondialisation - Opportunités et menaces pour les secteurs stratégiques”, event organised by the Centre Européen de Droit et d'Economie (CEDE) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - “Cyber attacks: hype or an increasing headache for open societies?” event organised by IES/VUB |