| 20/03 | Brussels: - Trade ministers meet over lunch |
| 21/03 | Brussels: - General Affairs Council |
| Brussels: - General Affairs Council | |
| Brussels: - Special meeting of the Eurogroup | |
| Brussels: - Special Energy Council | |
| Brussels: - European Parliament: Committee meetings: Budgetary Control (also 22), Regional Development (also 22), Legal Affairs (also 22), Economic and Monetary Affairs | |
| Bilbao: - Fifth conference of the Committee of the Regions on subsidiarity and monitoring subsidiarity a year on from the Lisbon Treaty at local and regional level | |
| Brussels: - European Economic and Social Committee (EESC): - Hearing on re-examining the EU budget and suggestions for the next Multiannual Financial Framework, with Lewandowski | |
| Geneva: - EP delegation (18 MEPs) headed by Vice-President Stavros Lambrinidis to attend 2011 WTO parliamentary conference, a joint initiative of the European Parliament and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (also 22/03) | |
| 22/03 | Brussels: - COREPER I |
| Brussels: - European Parliament: Committee meetings: Foreign Affairs, Development, Constitutional Affairs. - Public hearing on cohesion policy in the future (Regional Development Committee). - Hearing on simplifying the single market rules for motorbikes and scooters (Internal Market Committee) | |
| Strasbourg: - Congress of the Local and Regional Authorities in Europe: 20th plenary session (until 24/03) | |
| 23/03 | Brussels: - European Parliament: Plenary session (also 24/03) - Debate on preparing for the European Council meeting. Statements by the Council of Ministers and European Commission. |
| Brussels: - Weekly meeting of the European Commission - On the agenda: Publishing a White Paper on a Single European Transport Area; - Publishing a report on consular protection for Europeans outside the EU; - Publishing a report on changing the rules on state aid for services of general economic interest (SGEI). European Commission to publish a Green Paper on Thursday 24 March on online gambling in the single market | |
| Brussels: - EESC/Sustainable Development Monitoring Centre: Public hearing and day of events on a greener EU in a greener world | |
| Brussels: - EESC: Public hearing on volunteering | |
| 24/03 | Brussels: - European Council (also 24/03) |
| Brussels: - EPP summit | |
| Brussels: - Tripartite social summit | |
| Budapest/Gödöllõ: - Meeting of EU environment ministers (until 26/03) | |
| Brussels: - European Parliament: Budgets Committee | |
| Luxembourg: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-400/08 Commission/Spain (freedom of establishment), Ruling C-435/09 Commission/Belgium (environment and consumers), Ruling C-552/09 P Ferrero/OHIM (intellectual property), Ruling C-375/10 Commission/Spain (company law) | |
| 27/03 | Budapest/Gödöllõ: - Meeting of EU culture and education ministers (until 29/03) |