EUROPEAN UNION
| 02/04 - | CAIRO: Preparation of the Africa-Europe Summit - Extraordinary meeting of the General Affairs Council - Preparatory meeting with African foreign ministers. |
| 03/04 | CAIRO: - EU-Africa Summit (and 4/04). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Committees: Development and cooperation (and 4); constitutional affairs (and 4); fisheries (and 4); foreign affairs, human rights, joint security and defence policy (and 4); environment, public health and consumer policy (and 4); economic and monetary (and 4), public hearing "new framework for adequation of own funds" - Mini-hearing on practical aspects of changeover to euro. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conciliation Committee organisation of "working hours". |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Informal meeting (in working groups) of the convention responsible for drawing up European Charter of Fundamental Rights (at EP) (and 4) and Drafting Committee. |
| 4/04 - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: hearing on "Broad Economic Policy Guidelines for 2000" (economic and monetary committee). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Joint EU-Romania Parliamentary Committee. |
| - | VIENNA: - European United Left/Nordic Greens Left: workshops (till 6/04). |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-269/97 Commission/Council (agriculture), Ruling C-465/98 Adolf Darbo (approximation of legislation). |
| 5/04 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - ESC: single market, production and consumer sections. |
| 6/04 - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Conference of Presidents of political groups. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - ESC: transport, energy, infrastructures, information society sectors. |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-383/98 Polo/Lauren (commercial policy), C-286/95 P Commission/ICI (competition), C-256/98 Commission/France (environment and consumers), Joint Affairs decision C-287/95 P, C-288/95 P Commission/Solvay (competition), C-443/97 Spain/Commission (regional policy), C-226/98 Jorgensen (social policy). Court of First Instance: T-188/98 Kuijer/council (institutional law). |
| 7/04 - | LISBON: - Informal Ecofin Council (8/04). |
| 10/04 - | LUXEMBOURG: - General Affairs Council (and 11/04). |
| - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: plenary session (till 14/04). |
OTHER EVENTS
| 01/04 | TOKYO: - Meeting of Education Ministers of G8 (till ¾). |
| 3/04 | GENEVA: - 2nd WACAP Forum (World Alliance of Cities Against Poverty, created at an UNDP initiative): "Decentralisation, development and cooperation: concrete applications for eradicating urban poverty" (till 5/04). |
| - | STRASBOURG: - Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: session (till 7/04). |
| 6/04 - | MONTECATINI TERME: - European Conference ADAPT and EMPLOI, organised by the European Commission and the Italian Ministry of Labour (till 8/04). |
| - | ISTANBUL: - 12th Conference of European Ministers responsible for local government, jointly organised by the Council of Europe and the Turkish government (and 7/04). |
| 7/04 - | OKINAWA: - G-8 Meeting of Environment Ministers (till 10/04). |
| - | VIENNA: - Inauguration of European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. |
| 9/04 - | LISBON: - XXIIth IPSE meeting on "Social Europe: universal scope or protectionist alibi?" (with support of DG Employment at European Commission) (till 11/04). |
| 10/04 - | STRASBOURG: - CLRAE: Office of Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Europe. |
| - | VIENNA: - UN/ODCCP (UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention): Congress (till 17). |