Monday 16 October
Luxembourg. Council of the EU. Foreign Affairs Council. – Iran and joint global action plan (agreement on the Iranian nuclear-power). – Adoption of autonomous supplementary measures against North Korea and discussions on EU implementation of UN measures. – Discussion regarding cooperation with Turkey in relation to the regional situation and European Council (situation in Syria and Iraq and relations with Iran). – Adoption of conclusions on midterm review of action plan in favour of human rights and democracy; examination of annual reports on human rights and democracy in the world in 2016. *Points A: - Conclusions on Burma (situation of Rohingya minority), the EU strategy for Afghanistan, extension of the EUFOR Althea mandate in Bosnia-Herzegovina. – Legal Acts for launching new CSDP civil mission on security reform in Iraq.
Brussels. Council of the EU. Coreper II.
Brussels. European Parliament. Committee activities (to 19/10). – EMPL: vote on the draft report on the amendment to the directive on posted workers as part of providing services. – FEMM: public hearing on European strategy for treating cancers affecting women. – EMPL-TRAN: public hearing on working conditions for road hauliers and mobile workers in the transport sector.
Tuesday 17 October
Luxembourg. Council of the EU. General Affairs Council. *EU27 training (Art.50) : - examination with Michel Barnier of the state of Brexit negotiations in view of the European Council. – Relocation of the European Medicines Agency and the European Banking Authority. *EU28 training: - preparing the conclusions of the European Council of the 18-20/10 (Migration, Digital Europe, Defence, External Relations). – 3rd annual dialogue on the rule of law regarding questions or media pluralism, citizens education about the media and the rule of law in the digital era come on the basis of any note from the Presidency
Luxembourg. * European Court of Justice. # Case: C-194-16 (Bolagsupplysningen and Ilsjan – determination of/ member state(s) where a company claiming its rights to a legal personality have been violated by information published on the Internet and can demand compensation for the damages suffered).
Wednesday 18 October
Brussels. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. – Preparation of the European Council. – Anti-terrorism package (Timmermans). – 11th Report on the Security Union (Timmermans).
Brussels. European Council. Tripartite Summit on growth and employment (European Council and Council, European Commission social partners) on the theme of “Making the Future of Europe; enhancing resilience and promoting economic and social progress for all”. – Europe’s Social Dimension. – Progress accomplished and means of improving participation of social partners in national level policies and reforms. – Investing in education in the digital economy.
Brussels. Council of the EU. Coreper I.
Luxembourg. * European Court of Justice. # Cases: C-409/16 (Kalliri – discriminatory nature or not for women of a regulation imposing a minimum height of 1.7m for both genders to enter the police academy). Brussels. European Economic and Social Committee. Plenary session (and 19/10). – debate with the First Vice President of the Commission, Frans Timmermans, on the contribution of the EESC to the Commission’ 2018 work programme.
Thursday 19 October
Brussels. European Council. Summit of heads of state and government (and 20/10). * EU 28 training. – Migration: measures taken on controlling migration flows and possible additional measures, progress and reform of the European common asylum regime – Digital: opportunities provided by digitalisation and its resulting challenges, the point on introducing the single digital market. – Defence: discussions on permanent structured cooperation (PSC) in defence. – External relations: relations with Turkey, Iran, the situation in Iraq and Syria, North Korea.
Brussels. European Parliament. Committee activities. – AFET: discussion with the Georgian Prime Minister, Mikheil Janelidze. – ECON: meeting with Commissioner Moscovici (economic and tax affairs).
Luxembourg. * European Court of Justice. # Cases - C-65/16 (Istanbul Lojistik – Accounting and EEC/Turkey agreement on the Hungarian tax on automobiles). – C-295/16 (Europamur Alimentación – can national regulation introduce a general ban on the sales at a loss whilst including derogations?). – Case. Jtes C-598/16 p and C-599/16 P (Yanukovytch/Council – Annulment of the freezing of funds against the former Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovytch). #Conclusions: - C-270/16 (Ruiz Conejero – legality of the dismissal of a disabled worker due to repeated absences justified by their disability). – Case. jtes C-274/16 (Flightright), C-447/16 (Becker) and C-448/16 (Barkan e.a. – The decision by the country in which an air passenger can enjoy their rights if a flight is interrupted, with connections whose segments are provided by different airlines).
Brussels. European Economic and Social Committee. Plenary session. – Vote for the report on the taxation of the participative economy.
Friday 20 October
Brussels. European Council. Summit of heads of state and government. * EU 27 training (Art.50). – Developments in negotiations with the United Kingdom on Brexit.