05/11 - 11/11/2018

Monday 5 November

• Brussels. Council of the EU. Economic and Financial Affairs Council. *Eurogroup. - Discussion on Italy's draft budget for 2019. *Training of Twenty-Seven ministers : - Discussion on the deepening of Economic and Monetary Union (establishment of the Deposit Guarantee Fund - EDIS) and the European Stability Mechanism (SRF safety net and reform of the architecture of the MES). 
• Brussels. European Parliament. Commission activities (through 08/11). - BUDG: vote on the draft interim report on the multiannual financial framework 2021-2027 (European Parliament priorities). - LIBE: vote on the non-legislative report on the full application of the Schengen acquis in Romania and Bulgaria (abolition of border controls); vote on opinions on the European Social Fund+, the Digital Europe programme and the protection of whistleblowers. - IMCO: Review of the draft report on the Single Market, the competitiveness of enterprises (including SMEs) and European statistics. - ECON: - vote on the report by Ashley Fox (ECR, UK) on equity financing for companies; - vote on the report by Paul Tang (S&D, The Netherlands) on the publication of information on sustainable investments and sustainability risks; - vote on the report by Eva Maydell (EPP, Bulgaria) on fees for cross-border payments in the EU and currency conversion fees. - INTA :  vote on draft recommendation to approve or reject the Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and Japan signed in July 2018.
• Brussels. Council of the EU, European Parliament, European Commission. Trilogue (and 06/11). Interinstitutional negotiations on the draft Community framework for screening third country investments in the EU (technical meeting on 05/11 and political meeting on 06/11). 

Tuesday 6 November

• Brussels. Council of the EU. Economic and Financial Affairs Council. - Discussion on the digital services taxe (DST): adaptation of corporate tax rules to adapt them to the digital age (data sales, sunset clause, calculation and collection of the digital services tax, administrative cooperation for information exchange). - Adoption of conclusions on EU statistics. - Adoption of conclusions on “climate finance”. - Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report on the management of the EU budget: decision on the discharge for the EU 2017 budget. - Other: Ministerial dialogue with EU countries and the Presidency's update of discussions at the G20 and IMF meetings in Bali in mid-October. 
• Brussels. Council of the EU. PSC.
• Brussels. European Parliament. Hearing by the S&D group of the two current PES candidates - Maroš Šefčovič and Frans Timmermans - on the nomination of the party's Spitzenkandidate to be held at the PES Congress on 7-8 December in Lisbon.
• Luxembourg. * EU Court of Justice. #Stops: - Case C-569/16 (Bauer) and C-570/16 (Willmeroth - Compliance with EU law of national legislation preventing the heirs of a deceased worker from claiming financial compensation for leave not taken). - Case C-622/16 P (Scuola Elementare Maria Montessori v Commission), C-623/16 P (Commission/Scuola Elementare Maria Montessori) and C-624/16 P (Commission/Ferracci - Application for annulment of the Commission's decision waiving the recovery of unlawful aid granted by Italy in the form of exemption from municipal property tax). - Case C-619/16 (Kreuziger) and C-684/16 (Max-Planck-Gesellschaftzur Förderung der Wissenschaften - does the mere fact that a worker has not requested leave automatically entail the loss of the right to financial compensation for leave not taken at the end of the employment relationship?). 

Wednesday 7 November

• Brussels. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. - Communication on a comprehensive EU framework on endocrine disrupters (Katainen).
• Brussels. Council of the EU. Coreper I and II.
• Luxembourg. * EU Court of Justice. #Stops : C-171/17 (Commission/Hungary - Compliance with EU law of the concession to a single company controlled by the Hungarian State of the operation of a national mobile payment system whose use is compulsory).
• Helsinki. European Parliament. EPP Congress (and 08/11). Appointment of the Party's new governing bodies and official appointment of the Party's 'Spitzenkandidate' for the Presidency of the European Commission.

Thursday 8 November

• Brussels. Council of the EU. PSC.
• Luxembourg. * EU Court of Justice: #Stop: - T-544/13(Dyson v Commission- Application for annulment of the Regulation on the energy labelling of vacuum cleaners).
• Madrid. European Parliament. ALDE Congress (through 10/11). Appointment of the Party's new governing bodies and official appointment of the Party's 'Spitzenkandidate' for the Presidency of the European Commission.

Friday 9 November

• Brussels. Council of the EU. Foreign Affairs Council. *Trade : - Ongoing work on the modernisation of the WTO. - Update on ongoing bilateral trade negotiations between the EU and Mercosur, Indonesia, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, China and Tunisia. - Commission progress report on the negotiations on the proposal on filtering of foreign direct investment and the horizontal regulation on bilateral safeguard provisions to protect industries. - Recent developments in EU-US trade relations.
• Brussels. Council of the EU. Coreper I.