EUROPEAN UNION
| 27/04 - | LA MANGA (MURCIA): - Informal ministerial meeting on Agriculture (to 30/04). |
| - | PAMPLONA: - Ministerial seminar on Energy (contd., and 28/05). |
| 29/04 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting between Messrs Prodi, Monti, Liikanen, Bolkestein and Ms Wallström - German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. |
| 30/04 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Political and Security Committee. |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-400/00 Club-Tour, Viagens e Turismo; oral arguments C-101/01 Lindqvist (approximation of legislation), C-104/01 Libertel Groep (approximation of legislation); Conclusions C-376/01 Commission/Ireland (approximation of legislation), C-126/01 Gemo (State aid). - Court of First Instance: oral arguments T-205/01 Ronsse/Commission (statute of officials). |
| 2/05 - | WASHINGTON: - EU/United States summit. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - COREPER Meeting. |
| LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-292/99 Commission/France (environment); oral arguments C-160/01 Mau (social policy), C-5/01 Belgium/Commission (State aid), C-245/00 Sena (intellectual property), C-221/00 Commission/Austria (approximation of legislation); Conclusions C-173/01 Commission/Greece (agriculture). - Court of First Instance: oral argument T-213/00 CMA CGM and others/Commission (competition). | |
| 3/05 - | SANTANDER: - Informal meeting of Tourism Ministers (to 5/05). |
| 6/05 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the Eurogroup. |
| 7/05 - | BRUSSELS: - Ecofin Council. |
OTHER EVENTS
| 29/04 - | BRUSSELS: - Conference on company taxation (and 30/04). |
| 2/05 - | DETROIT: - Ministerial G8 Energy Meeting (and 3/05). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - meetings on the economy (and 3/05). |
| 4/05 - | BRUSSELS/LUXEMBOURG/STRASBOURG: - Open Door Day in European institutions in the context of European Day celebrations (anniversary of Schuman Declaration, on 9 May). |
| - | PADUA: - Conference "Servizio Civile: capire e costruire la cittadinanza europea". |
| 6/05 - | BRUSSELS: - Symposium "National and supranational Benchmarking - Irreconciliable Conflict or Copious Collaboration" (organised by Bertelsmann Foundation). |
| - | BARCELONA: - Social sciences: European institutions and policies (and 7/05). |
| 7/05 - | ROME: - OECD/FATF: plenary meeting (and 8/05). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference: "The Challenge of Change in EU Business Associations" (organised for the European Commission by Ernst & Young) (to 10/05). |
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(EU) EU/HEALTH: 26/04/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Society for Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ESIDOG) has called on EU Member States to bring the most up to date technologies into use as quickly as possible in order to fight cervical cancer. Such technologies include testing for the presence of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), the acknowledged cause of cervical cancer. According to ESIDOG, the use of this test could result in a 40% reduction in cervical cancer cases while reducing government health expenditures to fight this disease by 23%. In the EU, 12,800 women die of this cancer each year.