EUROPEAN UNION
| 25/04 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Lunchtime meeting between EU defence ministers and EU high representative |
| 26/04 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Foreign Affairs and Defence Council - GAC |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Meeting of European Defence Agency management committee and EU defence ministers |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - EU-African Union ministerial dialogue meeting |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Second high-level conference on industrial competitiveness, the role of policies and markets in times of crisis and lessons from past crises |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: Week of EP committee meetings |
| 27/04 - | LUXEMBOURG: - EU-Egypt Association Council |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Policy and Security Committee (also 30/04) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Economic affairs committee: Public hearing on future of over-the-counter derivatives that were one of the engines of the financial crisis. - Budgets committee: Presentation by Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski of next draft EU budget. - Environment committee: Fake medicine and pharmaceutical vigilance |
| 28/04 - | TOKYO: - EU-Japan summit |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission |
| - | BRUSSELS - European Economic and Social Committee plenary (also 29/04) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - COREPER I and COREPER II |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Employment committee: Lorry drivers' working week. - Industry committee: Energy efficiency of buildings and energy labelling. - Legal committee: Intellectual property, online piracy and anti-counterfeiting negotiations. - Foreign affairs committee: UfM and revitalising EuroMed Process |
| 29/04 - | BEIJING: Executive-to-executive meeting of European Commission and Chinese government |
| - | VALENCIA: - Second high-level conference on the future of postal services in the digital age (also 30/04) |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-92/07 Commission/Netherlands, Ruling C-102/09 Camar (foreign relations), Ruling C-160/08 Commission/Germany (freedom to supply services), Ruling C-230/08 Dansk Transport og Logistik, Ruling C-123/09 Roeckl Sporthandschuhe (Customs Union), Ruling C-340/08 M (FC) (common foreign and security policy), Ruling C-446/08 Sikgar (approximation of legislation) and Ruling C-124/09 Smit Reizen (transport). |
OTHER EVENTS
| 24/04 - | WASHINGTON: - IMF and World Bank summits (also 25/04) |
| 26/04 - | HALIFAX (CANADA): - G8 development ministers' meeting (until 28 April) |
| - | STRASBOURG: - Council of Europe parliamentary assembly sitting (until 30/04) |
| 27/04 - | PARIS: - World Water summit 2010 “Transforming the World's Water”, organised by Global Water Intelligence International (also 28/04) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference on EU foreign policy and Cuba, organised by Brussels office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) |
| 28/04 - | BRUSSELS: - First regions of Europe “Energy Day” organised by the Assembly of the Regions of Europe (also 29/04) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung discussion panel: “The European External Action Service - Making it Work” |
| - | World Health and Safety at Work Day - Launch of EU safe workplace campaign 2010-2011 focussing on health and safety in maintenance work |
| 29/04 - | TORONTO (CANADA): - Forum for Partnership with Africa (also 30/04) |
| - | MADRID: - European dialogue on internet governance (EuroDIG) (also 30/04) |
| 30/04 - | BRUSSELS: - IEE/ULB conference: “L'Alliance Atlantique et l'Europe face au défi de l'armement et du désarmement nucléaires” |