EUROPEAN UNION
| 15/04 - | PORTO: - Informal "Environment" Council (and 16/04). |
| - | LISBON: - Informal meeting of Personal Representatives on IGC. |
| - | SANTA MARIA DA FEIRA: - Conference "Social Protection as a Production Factor" - Its contribution to employment, economic reform and social cohesion". |
| - | LISBON: - Conference on "Equal" initiative for the fight against all discrimination on labour market, organised by the Commission with cooperation from Council. |
| 16/04 - | TALLINN: - Study Group of Economic and Social Committee on Estonia - Meeting with political personalities and associations representing civil society (till 18/04). |
| 17/04 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Agriculture Council (and 18/04). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: 9th meeting of EP President with Presidents of Parliaments of countries taking part in the enlargement process (and 18/04). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: Committees: regional policy, transport and tourism (till 19); environment, public health and consumer policy (till 19); development and cooperation (till 19); constitutional affairs (and 18); women's rights and equal opportunities (and 18); petitions (and 18); legal and internal market (and 18); economic and monetary (and 18/04). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: EU/Azerbaijan parliamentary cooperation committee (and 18/04). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting to draft the European Charter for Fundamental Rights: drafting committee (to 20/04). |
| - | FRANKFURT: - European Central Bank: : visit by delegation of the EP Committee on Social Affairs and Employment - debate on employment policy. |
| 18/04 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: Committees: budgetary control (and 19); industry, foreign trade, research and energy (and 19); citizen's freedoms and rights, justice and home affairs (and 19); budgets (and 19); agriculture and rural development (and 19). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament/Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy: public hearing on endocrine destabilisers. |
| 19/04 - | LISBON: - Speech by Mr Bolkestein on food safety and internal market. |
OTHER EVENTS
| 15/04 - | WASHINGTON: - G-7 Finance Ministers and "Spring Meetings" of IMF and World Bank (and following days). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - 26th General Assembly of Development NGOs. |
| 16/04 - | TUNIS: - 7th meeting of follow-up committee for Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation on Research and Technological Developmetn (RTD) (till 18/04). |
| 17/04 - | STRASBOURG: - Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe (CLRAE): working group on local democracy in member countries, regionalisation and democratic stability in Europe. |
| - | PARIS: - Hearing of sub-committee on migration of the commission on demography and refugees of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: "How to humanise expulsion procedures for illegal immigrants and asylum seekers ?". |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference "Euro-Med Free Trade Area: Can it be Sustainable? Organised at the EP by the "Friends of the Earth" and "Globe" associations. |
| 19/04 - | PARIS: - Conference "Privatisation in Europe: towards better corporate governance" organised by Forum Europe and IRI, participation of company representatives, the OECD, the DG on Competition from the Commission, etc. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - "The Enlargement of the EU: the Road Ahead", conference (organised by EPC) of the European Commissioner for Enlargement Günter Verheugen. |