EUROPEAN UNION
| 16/05 - | SANTANDER: - EU-Mexico summit |
| 17/05 - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament plenary (until 20/05) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Agriculture and Fisheries Council |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of Eurogroup |
| - | MADRID: - EU-Cariforum summit. - EU-Chile summit. - EU-Mercosur summit |
| 18/05 - | BRUSSELS: - Economic and Financial Affairs Council |
| - | MADRID: - EU-Latin America and Caribbean summit |
| - | STRASBOURG: - Meeting of the European Commission |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EESC: Third Western Balkans Civil Society Forum (also 19/05) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Policy and Security Committee (also 21/05) |
| 19/05 - | MADRID: - EU-Andean Community summit. - EU-Central America summit |
| - | ZARAGOZA: - Meeting of EU disability ministers |
| - | BRUSSELS: - COREPER I and COREPER II |
| 20/05 - | FLORENCE: - Biannual EESC conference on education to tackle social exclusion (until 22/05) |
| - | TENERIFE: - COREPER II (until 23/05) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference in series on “Les régions actrices du changement économique”, examining “Construire une croissance durable” and award of RegioStars prize (also 21) |
| - | FRANKFURT: - ECB: European Central Bank Governing Council |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-308/08 Commission/Spain (environment), C-352/08 Zwijnenburg , Ruling C-56/09 Zanotti, Ruling C-228/09 Commission/Poland (taxation), Ruling C-365/08 Agrana Zucker, Ruling C-434/08 Harms (agriculture), Ruling C-370/08 Data I/O (common customs tariff), Ruling C-583/08 Gogos/Commission (official's terms and conditions), Ruling C-111/09 Bilas (area of freedom, security and justice), Ruling C-138/09 Todaro Nunziatina & C., Ruling C-210/09 Scott and Kimberly Clark (state aid), Ruling C-158/09 Commission/Spain (free circulation of individuals) and Ruling C-160/09 Ioannis Katsivardas - Nikolaos Tsitsikas (foreign relations) |
| 25/05 - | BRUSSELS: - Competitiveness Council (also 26/05) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - High-level academic and political decision-makers conference on the post-Lisbon Treaty EU (also 26/05) |
OTHER EVENTS
| 17/05 - | GENEVA: - WHO world health assembly (until 21/05) |
| - | CANNES: - Europe Day at Cannes Film Festival - Award of European Talent Prize 2010- Conference “Construire l'avenir du cinema” |
| - | World Telecoms and Information Society Day |
| 18/05 - | GIJON: - European Day of the Sea - Conference of the parties (until 21/05) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Leading EU cities event organised by IFRI |
| 19/05 - | DUNKIRK: - 6th European Sustainable Cities Conference (until 21/05) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference organised by European Social Observatory and European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) to celebrate publication of “Bilan social de l'UE 2009” (Social stock-take of EU 2009) |
| 20/05 - | BERLIN: - G20 conference on banking and financial markets |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference organised by EGA on “Future Prospects for the Belgian Presidency of the EU: Global Challenges in a New Institutional Era” (also 21/05) |
| 21/05 - | World Cultural Diversity Day for Dialogue and Development |
| 22/05 - | World Biodiversity Day |
| 24/05 - | BAKU: - Seventh European Council of Europe ministerial conference on sexual equality (also 25/05) |
| 25/05 - | BRUSSELS: - BRUSSELS 2010 business forum on “Strategies for a post-crisis world: Enhancing European growth” (also 26/05) |
| - | European Small Business Week 2010 |