Monday 17 March
Brussels. General Affairs Council (9.30am): - Eastern Partnership, macro-economic assistance for Ukraine; - Bosnia Herzegovina; - peace process in the Middle East; - EU-Africa summit; - energy diplomacy.
Brussels. European Parliament. Week of committee meetings (until Thursday 20/03). Main issues to be discussed: - SRM economic dialogue (ECON: Moscovici on 17/03, Nouy from the ECB and Barnier on 18/03). - Visa restrictions for Russian officials involved in Magnitsky case (AFET: 17/03). - Budgetary discharge for 2012, Court of Auditor's programme for 2014, ERDF (CONT: 17-18/03). - Seconded workers (EMPL: 18/03). Roaming fees (ITRE: 18/03). Aviation emissions quotas (ENVI: 19/03). - Ukraine: human rights (DROI: 19/03); Reduction in customs duty (INTA: 20/03). - Partnership agreements (REGI: 19/03). - European funding fraud (CONT and LIBE: 20/03).
The detailed agenda of the European Parliament committee meetings can be found at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/agenda .
Strasbourg. Twenty-seventh ACP-EU Parliamentary Assembly (until 19/03): - Crisis in Central African Republic; - Situation of migrants; - Terrorism and the internet; - Mining on the sea bed; - Regional integration and modernisation of excise and customs.
Tuesday 18 March
Brussels. General Affairs Council (10.00am): - Preparing for European summit on 20-21/03; - European semester 2014; - Primacy of law mechanism.
Luxembourg. European Court of Justice (14.30 hrs): - Ruling in combined cases C-167/12 CD C-363/12 Z (Right to maternity leave for non-biological mothers). For further information, see: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/j_6/
Wednesday 19 March
Brussels. Commission-Council-Parliament trilogue meeting on the bank supervision mechanism (SRM).
Brussels. European Commission. Weekly meeting of College of Commissioners. On the agenda: - Macroeconomic aid for Ukraine; - Visa package: Simpler rules, new type of Schengen visa.
Brussels. COREPER I.
Thursday 20 March
Brussels (also 21/3). EUROPEAN SUMMIT. - Growth, Competitiveness and Jobs: European semester (country-specific recommendations for 2013, guidelines for stability and convergence programmes for 2014, progress report on the European 2020 Strategy); Industrial competitiveness (energy costs, skills mismatch, infrastructure development, patents, key generic technologies); Climate and energy (debate about the EU's climate and energy programme for 2020-2030, introduction of May 2013 conclusions document on energy); - Bank resolution mechanism (SRM); - Taxation (results of council meeting); - External relations: next EU-Africa summit and EU-Africa relations in general; Other foreign policy issues, like Ukraine and Syria.
Luxembourg (also 21/3). European Court of Justice. - Rulings: C-639/11 and C-61/12 (Ban on right-hand-side steering wheel cars in Poland and Lithuania). - Conclusions: C-255/13 (Prolonged stay in another member state due to serious health problems); Case C-611/12 P and combined cases C-12/13 P and C-13/13 P (Damages due to tuna fishing ban in the Mediterranean). For further information, see: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/j_6/