EUROPEAN UNION
| 12/03 - | CAIRO: - Euro-Mediterranean parliamentary assembly: first session (to 15/03) |
| 14/03 - | BRUSSELS: - Agriculture and Fisheries Council |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Mr Barroso and Mr Spidla attend meeting of social partners “Social Dialogue” |
| - | BRUSSELS: EP: committees: international trade (and 15); budgets (and 15); economic and monetary affairs (and 15); environment, public health and food safety (to 16); transport and tourism (to 16); regional development (and 15); Agriculture (to 16); fisheries (and 15); culture and education (and 15); legal affairs; constitutional affairs (and 15).- Public hearing on “Immigration, integration and development: towards a European policy?” (and 15) |
| 15/03 - | BRUSSELS: - EP: committees: Foreign affairs (and 16); Development (to 17); budgetary control (to 17); employment and social affairs (and 16), internal market (and 16). - Public hearings: “The directive on services and the audiovisual sector”- “Institutional aspects of the creation of a European External Action service”.- “The international fish oil and fishmeal industry: challenges and perspectives”.- “The future of rural development in the Union”.- “Marco Polo II - More balanced transport” |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: ruling C-160/03 Spain/Eurojust (staff regulations), ruling C-209/03 Bidar (social policy) |
| 16/03 - | BRUSSELS: - General Affairs and External Relations Council |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: meeting between the EP and national parliaments “Reinforcing the parliamentary dimension of the Lisbon Strategy” (and 17/03) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: committees: industry, research , energy (and 17); civil liberties, justice and home affairs (to 17); women's rights and gender equality (and 17); petitions (and 17).- Public hearing “Women's role in social, economic and political life in Turkey” |
| 17/03 - | BRUSSELS: - Mr Barroso attends Forum on the Lisbon Strategy |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: sub-committee on human rights; sub-committee on security and defence. - Public hearing “Terrorism: a matter for the International Criminal Court?”.- “The non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction: a role for the EP” |
| - | FRANKFURT: - ECB: Council of governors of the European Central Bank |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: ruling C-294/02 Commission/ AMI Semiconductor Belgium (institutional law), ruling C-170/03 Feron (customs union), ruling C-285/03 Greece/ Commission (agriculture), ruling C-109/04 Kranemann (free movement of persons), ruling C-91/03 Spain/ Council, ruling C-437/02 Commission/ Finland (fisheries policy), ruling C-228/03 The Gillette Co (alignment of legislations), ruling C-467/03 Ikegami Electronics (Europe) (common customs tariff) |
| 18/03 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Informal Meeting of Defence Ministers (and 19/03) |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Meeting of the EU Troika with the Defence Ministers of Bulgaria, Croatia, Iceland, Norway, Romania and Turkey |
OTHER EVENTS
| 15/03 - | BRUSSELS: - Summit of the Foreign Ministers of the European People's Party (EPP) |
| 16/03 - | BRUSSELS: - Quadripartite meeting of the EU/Council of Europe |
| - | STRASBOURG: - Congress of local and regional authorities of Europe: session (to 18) |
| 17/03 - | DERBYSHIRE: - G8 Environment and Development Meeting (and 18/03) |
| - | WARSAW: - Council of Europe/meeting of the European interior ministers “The Fight against terrorism and organised crime for improved security in Europe” (and 18/03) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Colloquium “Europe-United States: which political justice in international relations?” organised by IEE/ULB (and 18/03) |
| 21/03 - | STRASBOURG: - Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe/committee on political issues: round table on Chechnya |