| 05/04 - | BRUSSELS: - Informal Defence Council (and 6/04). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: Committees: Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (and 6/04); Budgets (and 6/04); Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (and 6/04); Industry, Exernal Trade, Research and Energy (and 6/04); Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (and 6/04); Agriculture and Rural Development; Temporary committee on strengthening maritime security. - Public hearing on externalising tasks outside enterprise or borders: consequences on employment (Committee on Employment and Social Affairs). |
| DUBLIN: Interparliamentary meeting between the European Parliament and the US Congress. | |
| 6/04 - | BRUSSELS: Meeting between Messrs Prodi, Patten and Mikhaïl Saakashvili, President of Georgia. |
| - | DUBLIN: Signing of Commission Charter on Road Safety. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: - Committees: Economic and Monetary; Legal and Internal Market (and 7/04); Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (and 7/04); Culture, Youth, Education, Media and Sport (and 7/04); Constitutional Affairs; Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (and 7/04). - Committee on Budgetary Control: hearing of members of the Court of Auditors of new member countries (and 7/04). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Science Congress "Investing in Research, Investing in the Future" (Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy/EP) (and 7/04). |
| - | DUBLIN: - EESC (European Economic and Social Committee) and NESC (National Economic and Social Council, Ireland): Conference on public services: the role of civil dialogue in the provision of quality economic and social services (and 7/04). |
| 07/04 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission. |
| - | DUBLIN: - Informal ministerial conference "Communicating Europe" (and 8/04). |
| BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: public hearing "European dimension in the teaching of history (Committee on Culture). |