EUROPEAN UNION
| 15/05 - | WATERFORD: - Informal Environment Council (and 16/05) |
| 17/05 - | BRUSSELS: - General Affairs and External Relations (and 18/05) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - IGC session on sidelines of CAGRE (and 18/05) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of Defence Ministers |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Joint EU-GCC meeting |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Competitiveness Council (and 18/05) |
| 18/05 - | BRUSSELS: - EU-Ukraine Co-operation Council |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EU-Turkey Association Council |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EU-Australian ministerial meeting |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: conclusions C-200/02 Chen and others (free movement of persons), conclusions C-313/02 Wippel (social policy), conclusions C-103/02 Commission/ Italy (environment), conclusions C-8/03 BBL (taxation), conclusions C/87/00 Nicoli (agriculture); plea C-53/03 Syfait (competition).- Court of First Instance: plea T-296/02 Lidl Stiftung/OHIM - REWE-Zentral (Lindenhof) (intellectual property) |
| 19/05 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: conclusions C-170/03 Feron (customs union), conclusions C-288/02 Commission/ Greece (transport), conclusions C-447/02 P KWS Saat/ OHIM (intellectual property); plea C-109/03 KPN Telecom (freedom to provide services), plea C-247/02 Sintesi (alignment of legislation), plea C-123/02 Parliament/ Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance (institutional law), plea C-124/02 Parliament/AIG Europe (institutional law), plea C-125/02 Parliament/ HDI International (institutional law) |
| 20/05 - | MOSCOW: - Meeting between the Commission and Russia |
| 21/05 - | MOSCOW: - EU/Russia Summit |
| 24/05 - | BRUSSELS: - Agriculture and Fisheries Council |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of First Instance: plea T-43/02 Jungbunzlauer/ Commission (competition) |
OTHER EVENTS
| 17/05 - | BRUSSELS: - Speech by Mr Byrne and Mr Telicka at European Health |
| - | DUBLIN: - Conference of the Irish Presidency "The evolution of practice and future trends in the field of ICT-assisted learning (information and communication technology)" (and 18/05) |
| - | STRASBOURG: - European parliamentary summit (Parliamentary president of the European States and the presidents of around ten European parliaments) "The Europe of citizens - parliaments and citizen participation" (to 19/05) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference "Defending Global Security - The New Politics of Transatlantic Defence Co-operation", organised by New Defence Agenda |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference "Public-private partnership and concessions: the players take the floor" by the association Espace Europe Equipement together with ING Belgium |
| 18/05 - | PARIS: - DAC/OECD: "Coherence in development policies", meeting organised by the Development Aid Committee (and 19/05) |
| - | NEW YORK: - Speech by Mr Monti: "Competition Policy in a global Economy" to Council on Foreign Relations |
| 22/05 - | NEW YORK: - Mr Almunia attends G8 Finances meeting (and 23/05) |
| - | TUNIS: - Arab summit (Arab League) (and 23/05) |
| 24/05 - | BUDAPEST: - Fourth European congress "ITS in Europe: Moving towards an integrated Europe" organised by Ertico (Intelligent transport systems and services Europe) (to 26/05) |
| - | PARIS: - Conference of the European Movement-France "A security strategy for the EU" |