Brussels. Council of the EU. “Competitiveness” Council (and 30/05). * Internal Market: - Adoption of a general approach to reform the type approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles for negotiations with the European Parliament. – General approach is on two directives in the “Services” package (controlling proportionality before adoption of new national measures on the professions; rules for reporting on authorisations and the services sector. – Check-up on competitiveness: condition of the real economy. – The point on implementation of the single market and digital single market strategies. – Debate on a strategy for the future of EU industrial policy– Debate on the transfer of business ownership.
Brussels. European Parliament. Committee activities (and 30/05). – CONT: workshop on the future European Antifraud Office. – REGI: vote on non-legislative reports on the promotion of cohesion and development in the EU’s outermost regions. – ECON: monetary dialogue with the president of the ECB, Mario Draghi, and the President of the European Council on systemic risk.
Tuesday 30 May
Brussels. Council of the EU. Competitiveness Council. * Space, research and innovation policy: - debate on a space strategy for Europe. – Adoption of conclusions for rationalising follow-up structures and drawing up reports on research and innovation. – Discussion about economic goals and public financing in the area of research/innovation.
Brussels. European Parliament. Committee activities.– CONT: workshop on modalities for resolving institutional disputes in the process of the budgetary discharge.– PETI: examination of the 2016 report by the European Ombudsman, and attended by Ombudsman, Ms O’Reilly, in addition to the vote on the report in Sweden (identification of EU residents in Sweden). – REGI: debate on the reduction of administrative procedures for the beneficiaries of Structural and Investment Funds (EFSI). – LIBE: current challenges in the fight against terrorism and organised-crime. – FEMM: hearing of experts on the effects of taxation on equal opportunities. – ECON-EMPL: examination by the two committees of the specific country-by- country recommendations with Commissioners Dombrovskis, Thyssen and Moscovici.
Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the EU. #Conclusions: C-165/16 (Lounes – leave to remain of a non-EU national in an EU state when they are married to an EU citizen who has resided in this state and has acquired the nationality of the state in question).
Wednesday 31 May
Brussels. European Parliament. Plenary session (and 01/06). * Debates: - decision adopted on the raft of measures on mobility (presidency. Commission). – New European consensus on development (Council and Commission). – Resilience as a strategic priority in EU external policy (3 QO DEVE at the Council and Commission). – fight against anti-Semitism (Council and Commission). – Autonomous trade measures in favour of Ukraine (Walesa – INTA). – Cadre 2018-2022 EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (Milnar – LIBE). – High-level UN conference for supporting sustainable development goals n.14 (QO PECH at the Commission). – Common discussion on Digital Europe: Business transition to digitalisation (Bütikofer – ITRE); European connectedness (Boni – ITRE).
Brussels. Commission. Weekly meeting of College of Commissioners. – Reflection document for deepening Monetary Union by 2025 (elaboration of white paper). – Mobility Package: post-2020 strategies on cars, light utility vehicles, a heavy-duty vehicles, buses and coaches; Eurovignette and European electronic toll services (EETS) directives.
Brussels. Council of the EU. Coreper I and II.
Thursday 1 June
Brussels. European Parliament. Plenary session. *Debates: - risk of political abuses in the media field in the Czech Republic. – Visa type models (Kaufmann – LIBE). – Protection of vulnerable adults (Bergeron – JURI). *Votes: - VAT rate applicable to books, newspapers periodicals (Vandenkendelaere – ECON). Vote on reports presented during the session (see above).
Brussels. Council of the EU and European Commission. EU/China Summit (and 02/06). On the agenda of the discussions between the presidents of the European Council and the Commission and the Chinese Prime Minister, Li Kequiang: trade, climate change, migration, foreign policy, security. Other summit related events, the 12th EU-China Business Summit (see other weekly events).
