Monday 2 June
Brussels. European Commission. The Commission will present its 2014 country recommendations: budgetary, structural and employment reforms that each member state (except those under programmes) will have to make in the next 12-18 months to stimulate growth.
Wednesday 4 June
Brussels (Justus Lipsius). G7 summit (and on 5/06): - situation in Ukraine and relations with Russia; other foreign policy issues; situation of global economy, energy security, climate change and development.
Brussels. European Commission. Publication of 2014 convergence report on state of preparation of eight member states (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Lituania, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden) for adoption of the single currency.
Brussels. Council of Ministers of EU. Coreper I and II.
Brussels. European Parliament. Extraordinary meeting of foreign affairs committee: discussion on election results in Ukraine and in Egypt on the basis of accounts from the heads of observation missions in these two countries.
Thursday 5 June
Luxembourg. Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council (and on 6/06). For Transport: - search for a political agreement on: updating the rules on the weight and dimensions of lorries; technical pillar of the fourth railway package (interoperability of systems, security, European Railway Agency); assessment of progress on: air passengers' rights, market access to port services and financial transparency of ports; - mid-term assessment of transport policy until 2018.
Luxembourg. Justice and Home Affairs Council (and on 6/06): For Home Affairs: general approach on revision of Europol regulation; debate on issue of foreign fighters and their return to the country (fight against terrorism and violent extremism); debate on future developments in area of JHA; conclusions on report on anti-corruption fight in EU; assessment of report by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction; work of the joint committee (EU + 4 countries) on functioning of Schengen area, state of progress of Taskforce for the Mediterranean.
Luxembourg. Court of Justice of EU: - Judgments: C-398/12 M (JHA - Schengen - application of ne bis in idem principle) ; C-557/12 (Kone and others - Competition - Cartels - Austria) ; C-2-55/13 (Social Security - Notion of residence - Medical care in another member state in exceptional situation); C146/14 (Mahdi - Bulgaria - JHA - Involvement - Refusal of interested party's embassy to provide a document needed for a return trip and possible obligation for the authority of the country concerned to provide a temporary document). - Opinions: C-117/13 (Technische Universität Darmsstadt - Copyright - Printing or downloading for digital support of a digital book made publicly available in a university library). General Court of EU: - Judgment T-161/12 (Free/OHIM - Partial rejection of opposition to recording of word mark FreeLounge) For further information: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/j_6/
Friday 6 June
Luxembourg. Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council. For Telecommunications: - state of progress on directive on security of electronic communications network and information systems, regulation on telecommunications single market; - working lunch on internet governance.
Brussels. Justice and Home Affairs Council. For Justice: - general approach on: procedural safeguards for children in criminal proceedings, amendments to regulation on insolvency proceedings; - policy debate on: regulation on creating a European Public Prosecutor, Eurojust regulation, notion of one-stop shop mechanism; - partial general approach on data protection.
Normandy (France). Commemoration of Allied Landing in 1944, to be attended by many heads of state and government including Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin (Putin to be hosted by François Hollande the previous day).