CALENDAR / Main activities of the european institutions
21-27 November
Monday 21 November
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council (and 22/11). *Youth: - Conclusions on promoting new approaches to socio-educational activities; the role of youth people in the EU. *Education: - Skills: Resolution on a new strategy on skills and recommendation on setting in place a skills guarantee for low-qualified adults to help them into the workplace; - Radicalisation: conclusions on preventing radicalisation leading to extremism; - Discussion on ways to unlock the potential of young people and develop their talents.
Strasbourg. European Parliament. Plenary session (to 24/11). *Debates: - 2015 report of the ECB with Mario Draghi (Tremosa i Balcels – ECON); - EU action plan to tackle trafficking in wildlife (Bearder – ENVI). *Presentation of reports: - Strategic communication to tackle anti-EU propaganda by third countries (Fotyga - AFET); - European Defence Union (Paet – AFET); - Passenger transport by water (Taylor – TRAN); - Improving the effectiveness of development cooperation (Preda – DEVE).
Strasbourg. European Parliament. Activities of the committees (to 24/11). – AGRI, ENVI, ITRE: discussion with Commissioner Hogan (Agriculture) on the EU’s forestry strategy. – CULT: debate on amendments to the directive on audiovisual media.
Tuesday 22 November
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council. *Culture: - Single market for audiovisual service: stock-take on the draft directive on the audiovisual media (adapting to changes brought in by new technologies and new business models); - Decision to introduce a European Year of Cultural Heritage; - Decision on extending the Capitals of Culture to Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. *Sport: - conclusions on the development of sports diplomacy and collaboration between the authorities and sporting movements to make better use of sport as a foreign policy instrument to disseminate European values.
Strasbourg. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. - European consensus on development. - Sustainable development objectives: next steps for a sustainable future in the EU (EU Action for Sustainability). - Towards a new partnership between the EU and ACP post-2020. - Resolution on the counterpart regulation. - Capital Markets Union: Corporate Insolvency II. - Single market strategy: helping SMEs and start-ups to grow.
Strasbourg. European Parliament. Plenary session. *Debates: Decision on the European semester package and economic priorities 2017 (Commission statement); - Access of the tax authorities to information on actions to tackle money laundering (Maurel – ECON); - Situation in Syria and Turkey (statement by the HR, Federica Mogherini); - Implementation of CSDP (Pascu – AFET); - Establishing a skills guarantee (Commission - EMPL); - Sign language (Commission statement). *Votes: - Mobilisation of the Solidarity Fund (Sulin – BUDG); - Cod stocks plan (Dodds – PECH).
Wednesday 23 November
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Coreper I and II.
Strasbourg. European Parliament. Plenary session. *Award of the Lux Prize. *Debates: - Emissions of certain atmospheric pollutants (Girling – ENVI). – Budget 2017, results of the conciliation committee; - Accession of the EU to the Istanbul Convention (violence against women – Commission, Council/political groups); - Macro-financial assistance to Jordan (Maurel - INTA); - Green Paper on retail financial services (Ludvigsson – ECON); - VAT system and fighting fraud (Langen – ECON); - Finalisation of the Basel III agreement (Commission/ECON); - New opportunities for small transport businesses (Riquet – TRAN); - International aviation agreements (Commission/TRAN).
Thursday 24 November
Brussels. 18th EU-Ukraine summit between Mr Tusk, Mr Juncker and Mr Poroshenko. – Visa liberalisation; - Implementation of the Minsk agreements; - Stock-take on reforms underway and measures to tackle corruption in Ukraine.
Strasbourg. European Parliament. Plenary session. *Debates: - Activities of the European Ombudsman (Marias – PETI); - Cases of human rights and democracy violation (situation in Turkey) (and vote); - Access to energy in the DCs (Commission/DEVE). *Votes: - Situation in Belarus.
