17/04-23/04

Tuesday 18 April

• Brussels. European Parliament Committee work (until 21/04). – EMPL: a delegation will be in Washington D.C. to monitor the work of the working groups on the jobs market, digitisation, robotics and artificial intelligence (until 21/04). – IMCO: a delegation visits Estonia to examine the country’s experience of the single digital market and strategies for the Single Market (until 21/04). – LIBE: a delegation visits Rome and Sicily to examine how hotspots for migrants operate, along with coordination between the EU and national authorities in this domain (until 21/04). – INTA: a delegation visits Ivory Coast and Ghana to examine implementation of the provisional EPA recently concluded in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) (until 20/04). – JURI: public consultation until 30/04 on rules of civil law on robotics, following recent JURI report on the subject.

Wednesday 19 April

• Brussels. Council of Ministers. COREPER I and II.
• Valletta (Malta). Council of Ministers. Informal meeting of ministers and European Commissioners responsible for the Integrated Maritime Policy, attended by MEPs (also 20/04). On the agenda: - ‘blue growth,’ innovation and ocean governance. – Western Mediterranean and nautical tourism.

Sunday 23 April

• Bratislava (Slovakia) (until 25/04). Annual conference of the president of the European Parliament and speakers of member states’ parliaments, attended by the speakers of candidate country parliaments as observers.