EUROPEAN UNION
| 19/11 - | BRUSSELS: - IGC ministerial conclave |
| 20/11 - | BRUSSELS: - General Affairs Council (and 21)- Meeting of European Affairs and Defence Ministers |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Agriculture Council (and 21/11) |
| - | PARIS: - Meeting of European Children's Ministers |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Accession conferences with Lithuania and Bulgaria |
| - | MADRID: - Europe-Latin America Summit |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: committees: environment (on 22); regional policy (on 22), constitutional affairs (on 22); legal affairs (on 22); development (on 22); "Echelon" temporary committee (and 21) |
| 21/11 - | BRUSSELS: - Accession conference with Malta, Romania, Slovakia and Latvia |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: committees: foreign affairs (and 22); women's rights (and 22); economic and monetary (on 23); budgetary control (on 23).- Public hearing on resource management for water (Development Committee). - Public hearing on use and feasibility of European civil code (Legal Committee) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting between EU Defence Ministers and their counterparts from twelve countries engaged in accession negotiations and from Turkey,. Norway and Iceland - Restrained meeting with Defence Ministers from Hungary, Iceland, Norway, Poland, the Czech Republic and Turkey |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of First Instance: ruling T-214/99 Carrasco Benitez/Committee (statute of civil servants), ruling T-23/00 A/Committee (statute of civil servants) |
| 22/11 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of European Committee |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conciliation Committee (EP, Council) on "Rail package" |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: committees: Industry (and 23); Budget (and 23); Agriculture (and 23); Freedoms and citizen's rights (and 23); culture (and 23).- Public hearing of protection of EU financial interests (Budgetary Control Committee) |
| 23/11 - | BRUSSELS: - Culture and Audiovisual Council |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Budget Council (and 24/11) |
| - | SOCHAUX: - Ministerial meeting of the European Conference |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: ruling C-319/99 Committee/France (Free provision of services), ruling C-320/99 Committee/France (rapprochement of legislation), ruling C-421/98 Committee/Spain , ruling C-135/99 Elsen (free movement of persons), ruling C-441/97 P Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl/ Committee (Ceca), ruling C-1/98 P British Steel/ Committee (Ceca) |
| 24/11 - | ZAGREB: - EU-Balkans Summit |
| - | BRUSSELS: - IGC informal meeting (and 25/11) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Annual meeting between DG Competition and Japan Fair Trade Committee |
| 27/11 - | BRUSSELS: - Ecofin Council (and 28/11) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Employment and Social Policy Council (and 28/11) |
| - | VALENCE: - Committee of the Regions: "Future of regional policy: conference on enlargement, globalisation and new forms of governance" (and 28/11) |
OTHER EVENTS
| 20/11 - | THE HAGUE: COP6 conference on climatic change (on 24/11) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference on Military engagement capabilities: intergovernmental meeting |
| - | LYON: - Forum of innovative companies/ towards a European innovation area (conference and forum organised by European Committee under auspices of French Presidency (and 21) |
| 21/11 - | BERLIN: - NATO parliamentary Assembly: plenary session |
| 22/11 - | BRUSSELS: - European information society: the new challenges: "Second European parliamentary meeting on information society" |
| 24/11 - | PARIS: - Colloquium Social and Territorial Cohesion in Europe. General economic interest services - organised under the auspices of the French EU Council Presidency (and 25/11) |