EUROPEAN UNION
| 11/10 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Competitiveness Council (also 12/10) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: Committee meetings: Foreign Affairs; Internal Market and Consumer Protection; Agriculture and Rural Development; meeting of the Civil Liberties Committee with the Polish Parliament's European Affairs Committee. - Political parties spend most of the week preparing for next plenary |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Second EU Innovation Summit (at EP) |
| 12/10 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission |
| - | BUCHAREST: - Conference on how EU funding can help integrate the Roma, high-level meeting organised by the European Commission |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference on the role of public authorities in regulating gambling, organised by the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers and the European Commission |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-499/08 Andersen (social policy) |
| 13/10 - | FUNCHAL: - EPP Study Day |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Siim Kallas speaks to mark European Road Safety Days (at EP) (also 14/10) |
| 14/10 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Environment Council |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: Meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee with the Development Committee and the Delegation for Relations with South Asian countries: debate with the Pakistani foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi. - Human Rights Subcommittee: public hearing on the death penalty. - Special committee on political challenges and budget resources for a sustainable EU post-2013 |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-535/07 Commission/Austria (environment), Ruling C-280/08 P Deutsche Telekom/Commission (competition), Ruling C-16/09 Schwemmer, Ruling C-345/09 van Delft (social security for immigrant workers), Ruling C-61/09 Niedermair/Schiemann (agriculture), Ruling C-67/09 Nuova Agricast and Cofra/Commission (state aid), Ruling C-243/09 Fuss and Ruling C-428/09 Solidaires Isère trade union (social policy) |
| 15/10 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Transport, Telecoms and Energy Council (focusing on transport) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting between Commission, Council, EP, secular and philosophical organisations to discuss how to tackle poverty and social exclusion |
| 18/10 - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament plenary session (until 21/10) |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Meeting of Eurogroup |
OTHER EVENTS
| 11/10 - | BRUSSELS: - International Forum organised by the Belgian Presidency, European Commission and ILO on promoting good jobs and foreign dimension of EU social and employment policies (also 12/10) |
| 12/10 - | OSTEND: - EurOCEAN: Marine & Maritime Sciences 2010 Conference (also 13/10) |
| 13/10 - | BRUSSELS: - Conference “Green IT for Green Policies” (also 14/10) |
| - | TALLINN: - Annual European Baltic Sea Strategy Forum (also 14/10) |
| - | THE HAGUE: - CEMR (Council of European Municipalities and Regions): conference on trust in local government |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP Journalism Prize 2010, awards ceremony |
| 14/10 - | BRUSSELS: - NATO: Meeting of foreign and defence ministers |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Hepatitis B and C Summit Conference (also 15/10) |
| 15/10 - | BRUSSELS: - Ministerial meeting of Friends of Democratic Pakistan group |
| 16/10 - | World Food Day |
| 17/10 - | World anti-poverty day |
| 18/10 - | NAGOYA/JAPAN: - Conference of the parties to the biodiversity convention (until 29/10) |
| - | European day of tackling human trafficking |