EUROPEAN UNION
| 17/05 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting between Jose Manuel Barroso, Louis Michel and Alpha Oumar Konaré, President of the Commission of the African Union |
| 18/05 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission |
| 19/05 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Informal meeting of Regional Policy and Territorial Cohesion ministers (also 20/05) |
| 20/05 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Informal ministerial meetings on the Structural Funds |
| 22/05 - | LUXEMBOURG: - European Affairs ministers' meeting |
| 23/05 - | BRUSSELS: - General Affairs and External Relations + Defence Council |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Education, Youth and Culture Council (also 24/05) |
| 24/05 - | BRUSSELS: - General Affairs and External Relations Council |
OTHER EVENTS
| 15/05 - | WARSAW: - Council of Europe 'European Youth Summit' (also 16/05) |
| 16/05 - | WARSAW: - 3rd Council of Europe Summit of heads of state and government (also 17/05) |
| - | GENEVE: - Mr. Kyprianou attends ministerial meeting on bird flu |
| 17/05 - | BRUSSELS: - Mr.Verheugen attends UNICE debate on Lisbon Strategy, industrial policy, innovation and better regulation |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference organised by ARE on 'Sustainable European agriculture - co-existence, GMO-free zones and promoting high quality food products in Europe' |
| 18/05 - | NANTES: - EBN-IASP Nantes 2005 Conference on 'Réseaux, clusters, pôles de compétitivité: une dynamique pour accélérer l'innovation et l'entrepreneuriat en Europe' (until 21/05) |
| 19/05 - | LISBON: - Speech by Jose Manuel Barroso to mark 10th anniversary of Jacques Delors Centre |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference organised by the European Commission on e-learning (also 20) |
| PARIS: - Speech by Mr. Kovacs at conference on savings tax organised by the French Assemblée nationale | |
| - | GALWAY: - Mr. McCreevy to address seminar on 'Communicating the European Constitution' |
| - | BERGEN/NORWAY: - Mr. Figel addresses conference on the 'Bologna Process/Higher Education' (also 20) |
| - | PARIS: - Messrs Barrot, Spidla and Ferrero-Waldner address debate at Fondation Schuman on the Constitution |
| - | ROME: - Louis Michel visits Rome as part of his tour of European capitals to discuss the review of the EU development policy |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Conference to raise awareness of North-South global solidarity, organised by DG Cooperation and Development of the European Commission along with the OECD's Development Centre and the Council of Europe's North-South Centre (also 20/05) |
| - | WROCLAV: - European Summit of the Cities and Regions on decentralisation (also 20/05) |
| - | KRACOV: - Speech by Ms Hübner at conference on 'A year after accession' |
| 20/05 - | LONDON: - Speech by Jose Manuel Barroso at London School of Economics on 'Response and responsibility' |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Speech by Louis Michel at conference on 'Education au développement-coopération belge' (Palais d'Egmont) |
| 22/05 - | BELGRADE: - 14th AGM of EBRD Governing Council |
| 23/05 - | MOSCOW: - Conference on managing the environment in the Russian Federation, organised by OECD Directorate for the Environment in cooperation with the World Bank (also 24/05) |
| 24/05 - | ARE/SWEDEN: - Forum of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council on Security (also 25/05) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference on developing and funding trans-European networks in the enlarged Europe (Fondation Robert Schuman) |