Monday 07 July
Brussels. Eurogroup: Greece; banking union; budgetary policy
Brussels. European Parliament. Constitutive meeting of committees and sub-committees. Election of officers (presidents and vice-presidents).
Brussels. European Commission. Presentation of a proposed directive on working time for workers in the inland navigation sector, which will apply an agreement concluded by the representatives of the employers and employees in the sector at EU level.
Luxembourg. General Court of the EU (and 8/07): hearing of the witnesses (07/07) and pleas (08/07) in case T-562/12 (Dalli/Commission - application by former Commissioner John Dalli to cancel the verbal decision of President Barroso requiring his resignation as Commissioner and request for compensation).
Info: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/j_6/
Tuesday 08 July
Brussels. Economic and Financial Affairs Council: - state of play in talks on the banks' contribution to the Banking Resolution Fund by Commissioner Barnier; - progress report by Commissioner Semeta on negotiations with five third countries, including Switzerland, on the revision of the bilateral agreements on tax on savings; - discussion on the Council's priorities in the economic and financial field for the second half of 2014; - exchange of views on the revision of the EUROPE 2020strategy.
Milan. Council of Ministers (and 09/07). Informal meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers (JHA). - Home Affairs (08/07): priorities for the next six months and strategic orientations defined by the European Council; follow-up of the “immigration task force”; readmission agreement with Turkey, mobility partnerships with Morocco and Tunisia; protection of Syrian refugees. - Justice (09/07): strategic guidelines for data protection, discussion on the future European public prosecutor's office.
Brussels. Council of Ministers (and 10/07). Political and Security Committee (COPS)
Luxembourg. Court of Justice of the EU: case C-83/13 (Fonnship and Svenska Transportarbetareförbundet - application of the freedom of movement of services when a company located within the EEA hires a vessel registered in a third country).
Info: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/j_6/
Wednesday 09 July
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Coreper 1 and II.
Brussels. European Commission: - Adoption of a recommendation on gambling to: protect minors from the inherent risks of gambling, provide consumers with information and put forward measures to counter addiction and compulsive gambling. - Adoption of the White Paper “Towards a more effective European merger control policy”, suggesting possible improvements to EU rules in this area.
Brussels. European Commission. Horizon 2020: initial calls relating to research projects launched by public-private partnerships in the field of innovation. Conference of the stakeholders.
Thursday 10 July
Brussels. European Parliament. Committee on civil liberties, justice and home affairs. Meeting of the coordinators.
Brussels. European Commission. Publication of the annual statistics 2012-2013 on the Erasmus programme
Luxembourg. Court of Justice of the EU: - Rulings: joint cases C-358/13 D and C-181/14 G (possible inclusion of synthetic cannabinaceae in “medicines”); C-421/13 (Apple - registration as a marque of the flagship Apple store); C-295/12 P (Telefonica and Telefonica Spain/Commission - Cancellation of a fine for abuse of dominant position); C-138/13 (Dogan - Requirement for extra-EU citizens to have basic knowledge of the language of a member state in order to reside there); C-391/13 P (Greece/Commission - Appeal against the verdict of the General Court confirming the withdrawal of €250 million in European agricultural funding from Greece over deficits in its aid to olive oil); - Findings: C-212/13 (Rynes - Does monitoring of a public area by a camera located on private property escape the rules on the processing of personal data?)