EUROPEAN UNION
| 22/02 - | BRUSSELS: - General Affairs Council - Foreign Affairs Council |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Agriculture and Fisheries Council |
| - | BARCELONA: - European Local Government Summit (until 24/02) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP/committee meetings: Development, Budgetary Control (also 23), Employment, Environment, Industry, Internal Market, Regional Development and Agriculture (also 23), Culture (also 23), Civil Liberties (also 23) and Constitutional Affairs. - Public hearing on the EU joining the UN convention on the rights of the disabled (Human Rights Committee) |
| 23/02 - | MADRID: - Meeting of the Barroso II European Commission and the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Cooperation Council with Kyrgyzstan. - Political dialogue with Moldova's foreign minister (on fringes of Foreign Affairs Council) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP/committee meetings: Foreign Affairs, International Trade, Budgets, Economic Affairs, Transport, Legal Affairs, Women's Rights and Petitions. - Public hearings on sustainable European fish farming (Fisheries Committee); and European universities (Culture Committee) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - High-level conference on IT and communications technology to boost energy efficiency (also 24) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Policy and Security Committee (also 26/02) |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-310/08 Ibrahim, Ruling C-480/08 Teixeira (European citizenship). - Court of First Instance: Ruling T-11/09 Özdemir/OHIM |
| 24/02 - | PALMA DE MALLORCA: - Meeting of EU defence ministers (also 25/02) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament plenary session (also 25/02) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission |
| - | BRUSSELS: - COREPER I and COREPER II |
| 25/02 - | BRUSSELS: - Justice and Home Affairs Council (also 26/02) |
| - | BRUGES: - European Commission seminar on EU 2020 strategy (also 26/02) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis - Fourth public hearing on financial regulation and supervision. - Seminar on the impact of the EU regulation on genetically-modified organisms (Industry, Research and Energy Committee) |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-337/08 X Holding (taxation), Ruling C-381/08 Car Trim (area of freedom, security and justice), Ruling C-386/08 Brita (foreign relations), Ruling C-408/08 P Lancôme/OHIM and CMS Hasche Sigle (intellectual property), Ruling C-562/08 Müller Fleisch, Ruling C-25/09 Sio-Eckes (agriculture) and Ruling C-209/09 Lahti Energia (environment) |
| 1/03 - | BRUSSELS: - Competitiveness Council (also 2/03) |
OTHER EVENTS
| 22/02 - | BRUSSELS: - “Quelles marges de financement pour l'Europe dans les contraintes budgétaires actuelles?” (Madariaga Foundation), with Hervé Jouanjean (DG Budget at European Commission) and Jean-Luc Dehaene |
| 23/02 - | BRUSSELS: - EPC Policy Briefing - “A new era for CFSP?” (with Carl Bildt) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - CEPS: “Bringing the EU and India together on the climate agenda” (with Stefan Agne, DG Environment at the European Commission) (organised at the EP, hosted by Satu Hassi) |
| 24/02 - | BRUSSELS: - EPC Breakfast Policy Briefing - “World trade in 2010: Crunch time for Doha” |
| - | BRUSSELS: - CEPS: “For a future sustainable, competitive and greener EU budget integrating the energy and climate change objectives” (at EP, hosted by Sirpa Pietikäinen) |
| 25/02 - | PARIS: - OECD: meeting of agriculture ministers to discuss farm and agri-food policy for a sustainable future (also 26/02) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - International conference on contemporary migration (European Cultural Centre) (also 26/02) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - CEPS Annual Conference 2010 - “Implementing Lisbon: The first steps” |
| 1/03 - | BRUSSELS: - 2010 Fiscal Forum - “Les politiques fiscales pour l'après-crise” (also 2/03) |
| - | 2010 European seminar on digital skills (until 5/03) |