EUROPEAN UNION
| 17/01 - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: plenary session (to 2101/). |
| - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: committees: legal and internal market; budgets; citizens' freedoms and rights, justice and home affairs; economic and monetary. |
| 18/01 - | STRASBOURG: - European Commission meeting. |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: plea C-36/98 Spain/Council (external relations); Conclusions C-343/98 Collino and Ciappero (social policy). - Court of First Instance: ruling T-290/97 Mehibas Dordtselaan/Commission (free movement of goods). |
| 19/01 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Signing of cooperation agreement between European Commission and EIB, under structural measures. |
| - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: Presentation by Portuguese Presidency of its programme of activities for its term-of office. - EP/committees: culture, youth, education, media and sports; foreign affairs, human rights, common security and defence policy. |
| 20/01 - | FRANKFURT: - ECB Executive Board (European Central Bank). |
| - | SLOVAKIA: - Official visit by Prodi and Verheugen. |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: pleas: C-322/98 Kachelmann (social policy), C-357/98 Yaa Konadu Yiadom (free movement of people), C-403/98 Azienda Agricola Monte Arcosu (agriculture), C-402/98 ATB et al (agriculture); conclusions: C-465/98 Adolf Darbo (legislation alignment), C-359/98 P Ca' Pasta/Commission (agriculture), C-50/99 Podesta (social policy), C-206/98 Commission/Belgium (free provision of services), C-274/98 Commission/Spain (environment and consumers); ruling C-414/98 Landerzeugergemeinschaft Gross Godems (agriculture). - Court of First Instance: plea T-95/98 Gorgos/Commission (statute of civil servants). |
| 21/01 - | THESSALONIKI: - Conference: "Civil Society, democratisation, participation and Stability Pace for South Eastern Europe" organised by the ESC and Royaumont Process for stability and good neighbourliness in South Eastern Europe. |
| 22/01 - | THESSALONIKI: - Ministerial meeting of Royaumont process, organised by the ESC. |
| 24/01 - | BRUSSELS: - General Affairs Council. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Agriculture Council (and 25/01). |
OTHER EVENTS
| 15/01 - | PARIS: - Permanent Forum of Civil Society - European NGO platform of social sector: seminar "Civil Dialogue on the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights". |
| 17/01 - | DUBLIN: - Conference on social development (European plan for social cohesion), organised by the Council of Europe (and 18/01). |
| 18/01 - | BRUSSELS: - ISE (European Trade Union Institute): seminar on entrepreneurship in the European employment strategy (and 19/01). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Seminar of "the future of railways in Europe", organised by the Conseillers du commerce extérieur of France (CCE). |
| - | STRASBOURG: - European Court of Human Rights: public hearings (to 20/01). |
| 20/01 - | BRUSSELS: - Eurelectric seminar on legal aspects of electricity trade. |
| - | STRASBOURG: - Council of Europe seminar on "Book printing on request: a technological revolution at the service of cultural diversity" (and 21/01). |
| - | LONDON: - Parliamentary/Committee on Economic Issues and Development seminar (annual meeting at EBRD headquarters). |
| - | THE HAGUE: - Conference on "Biotechnology - the science and impact" (and 21/01). |
| 22/01 - | TOKYO: - Meeting of G-7 Finance Ministers and governors of Central Banks. |
| 24/01 - | STRASBOURG: Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: session (to 28/01). |