| 07/03 | Brussels: - EPSCO Council (employment and social policy) |
| Strasbourg: - European Parliament: plenary session (until 10/03) | |
| Strasbourg: - EP: Committee meetings: Economic and Monetary Affairs; Environment, Public Health and Food Safety; Constitutional Affairs | |
| 08/03 | Strasbourg: - Weekly meeting of the European Commission - Agenda items: Publication of a report giving details of development aid for North African countries (ahead of the special European Council of 11 March), publication of a roadmap on achieving a low-carbon economy by 2050 and a 2011 energy efficiency plan |
| Strasbourg: - EP/ plenary session: Statement by Commission President José Manuel Barroso on preparations for the eurozone summit. Statements by Council of Ministers and Commission on 2010 progress report on Turkey; and the process of Montenegro moving closer to the EU. The EP will examine reports on female poverty and gender equality, ahead of the 100th International Women's Day | |
| Luxembourg: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-34/09 Ruiz Zambrano (European citizenship), Ruling C-240/09 Lesoochranarske zoskupenie (environment and consumers). - Court of First Instance: Ruling T-37/05 World Wide Tobacco Espana/Commission (competition) | |
| 09/03 | Brussels: - Competitiveness Council (also 10/03) |
| Brussels: - COREPER II, COREPER I | |
| Strasbourg: - EP/plenary session: Speech by Hungarian President Pal Schmitt (formal sitting). - Statements by Catherine Ashton on the EU's Neighbourhood Policy for southern neighbours, particularly Libya; - 16th meeting of the Human Rights Council (Geneva, 28 February to 24 March 2011); - progress in the Middle East peace process | |
| Luxembourg: - Court of First Instance: Ruling T-190/09 Longevity Health Products/OHIM - Performing Science (intellectual property), Ruling T-235/09 Commission/Edificios Inteco (arbitration clause) | |
| 10/03 | Brussels: - Special working lunch of EU foreign ministers |
| Strasbourg: - EP/plenary: Debates about human rights, democracy and rule of law violations in Pakistan and Belarus and cultural heritage in Kashgar (the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region of China). Votes on emergency resolutions. | |
| Strasbourg: - EP: Meeting of Foreign Affairs Committee and Special Committee on Political Challenges and Budget Resources for a Sustainable European Union post-2013 | |
| Brussels: - Conference organised by László Andor and DG Employment on new skills and jobs, attended by 2010 Nobel Prize Winner for Economics, Prof. Christopher Pissarides | |
| Brussels: - Conference organised by Eurostat on the role of statistics in drawing up policy and the EU's 2020 strategy (also 11/03) | |
| Luxembourg: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-109/09 Deutsche Lufthansa (social policy), Ruling C-274/09 Privater Rettungsdienst und Krankentransport Stadler, Ruling C/85/10 Telefonica Moviles Espana (freedom to supply services), Ruling C-379/09 Casteels, Ruling C-516/09 Borger (social security for immigrant workers), Ruling C-477/09 Defossez (social policy), Ruling C-540/09 Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (taxation), Ruling C-51/10 P Agencja Wydawnicza Technopol/OHIM (intellectual property), Ruling in Joint Cases C-497/09 Bog-C-499/09 CinemaxX-C-501/09 Lohmeyer-C-502/09 Fleischerei Nier (taxation) | |
| 11/03 | Brussels: - Special European Council to discuss Libya and southern Neighbourhood Policy countries |
| Brussels: - Special meeting of eurozone heads of state | |
| Budapest/Gödöllö: - Gymnich-type meeting of EU foreign ministers (also 12/03) | |
| European Day for the Victims of Terrorism |