EUROPEAN UNION
| 5/03 - | OTTAWA: - EU-Canada: ministerial meeting. |
| - | THE HAGUE/PARIS: - Continuation of capital tour by Göran Persson (to 12/03). - Göran Persson/Wim Kok meeting. - Göran Persson/Chirac and Jospin meeting. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: - Economic and Monetary Committee - Monetary dialogue. |
| 6/03 | BRUSSELS: - Employment Council and Social Policy. |
| - | STOCKHOLM: - Budgetary Trilogue. |
| - | WASHINGTON: - EU-United States: ministerial meeting. |
| - | MADRID/LISBON: - Persson/José Maria Aznar meering - Persson/Guterres meeting. |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-273/99 P, C-274/99 P Connolly/Commission (statute of officials). - Court of First Instance: Rulings T-331/94 IPK-Munich/Commission (social policy), T-192/99 Dunnett and others/EIB (statute of officials). |
| 7/03 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Göran Persson/Guy Verhofstadt meeting. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Economic and Social Committee: public hearing on "6th European Environmental Action Programme". |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting between Commission (Commissioners' Group on Equality), the European Parliament and the Women's Lobbies. |
| 8/03 - | BRUSSELS: - Environment Council. |
| - | STOCKHOLM: - EU-Russia: ministerial meeting. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - ESC: Sections on agriculture, rural development and the environment (and 9/03). |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Rulings C-215/99 Jauch (free movement of persons), C-240/99 Försäkringsaktiebolaget Skandia (taxation), C-316/99 Commission/Germany (agriculture), C-266/00 Commission/Luxembourg (environment), C-97/00 Commission/France (corporate law), C-176/00 Commission/Greece (agriculture), C-415/98 Bakesi (taxation), C-276/98 Commission/Portugal (taxation), C-405/98 Gourmet International Products (free movement of goods), C-68/99 Commission/Germany (free movement of persons), C-266/99 Commission/France (environment), C-278/99 van der Burg (approximation of legislation), Joint Affairs C-397/98, C-410/98 Metallgesellschaft (free movement of persons). |
| 9/03 - | HELSINKI: - Persson/Tarja Halonen/Paavo Lipponen meeting. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - ESC: public hearing "Update on BSE". |
| 11/03 - | BRUSSELS: - Eurogroup. |
| 12/03 - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: plenary session (to 15/03). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Ecofin Council. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Internal Market and Consumers Council. |
| - | COPENHAGEN/LONDON: - Persson/Rasmussen meeting, Persson/Tony Blair meeting. |
OTHER EVENTS
| 5/03 - | MINSK: - Parliamentary Troika (representing the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, and the EP) in Belarus (to 7/03). |
| 6/03 - | BRUSSELS: - Conference on changeover to the euro (Banque Nationale de Belgique). |
| - | PARIS: - European Information Technologies Week (to 8/03). |
| - | NEW YORK: - Meeting Lord Robertson (NATO)/UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. |
| - | LONDON: - Conference ten years after Rio Summit on Development and Environment. |
| 7/03 - | BRUSSELS: - Public debate on future of Europe opened by Messrs Persson, Verhofstadt and Prodi. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Public hearing on cyber-crime. |
| 8/03 - | WASHINGTON: - Meeting NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson/President Bush. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - International Day for Women: speeches by Mr Kinnock and Ms Diamantopoulou. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Launch by Mr Vitorino and Ms Diamantopoulou of campaign against Trade in Women (EP). |