11/02 - 20/02/2019

Monday 11 February

• Brussels. Council of the European Union. Eurogroup. *Regular meeting: - Results of the 10th post-programme monitoring mission to Ireland (13-16/11/2018) and the 9th post-programme monitoring mission to Portugal (26-30/11/2018). – Discussion on the election of a new member of the ECB's Executive Board, Irishman Philip Lane is a candidate. – Update on the economic situation and prospects of the euro area based on the Commission's winter forecasts. *Expanded meeting: - deepening EMU, the way forward for the budgetary instrument of convergence and competitiveness for the euro area and Member States participating voluntarily in ERM II.
• Strasbourg. European Parliament. Plenary session (to 14/02). For details of the debates and votes: https://bit.ly/2GwbSH1
• Strasbourg. European Parliament. Commission activities (through 14/02). – LIBE: vote on the draft legislative report on the European Coast Guard and Border Guard. – TAXE3: Hearing of the Minister of Justice of Malta, Mr Bonnici, on the follow-up to the exchange of letters on financial crimes on the island.

Tuesday 12 February

• Brussels. Council of the European Union. Economic and Financial Affairs Council. – Financial supervision: general approach on the elements of the reform of the financial supervision architecture. – Tax policy: discussion on the Commission’s communication 'Towards more effective and democratic decision-making on tax policy in the Union' which suggests a roadmap for a gradual transition to qualified majority voting in certain areas of EU tax policy. – Budget: adoption of conclusions on the 2018 report on the sustainability of public finances and consideration of the budget discharge for 2017 and guidelines for the definition of the 2020 budget.
• Brussels. Council of the European Union. Coreper II.
• Strasbourg. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. – Draft implementing act - Work programme for the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (Katainen).

Wednesday 13 February

• Brussels. Council of the European Union. Coreper II.

Thursday 14 February

• Brussels. Council of the European Union. Coreper I.
• Luxembourg. * EU Court of Justice. #Rulings: C-630/17 (Milivojevic - Conformity with European law of a national law retroactively annulling credit agreements concluded with foreign lenders who were not authorised to provide credit services even if they were concluded before the entry into force of that law). - * General Court of the European Union: #Ruling: Cases T-131/16 (Belgium v Commission) and T-263/16 (Magnetrol International v Commission - does the Belgian scheme for the exemption of surplus profits made by Belgian companies belonging to multinational enterprise groups based on the system of tax ruling constitute illegal State aid?

Friday 15 February

• Bucharest. Council of the European Union. Coreper I.