EUROPEAN UNION
| 18/09 - | BRUSSELS: - Agriculture and Fisheries Council |
| - | NEW YORK: - Ferrero-Waldner to visit United Nations for meeting of EU foreign ministers in Troika meetings between the EU and Ukraine, the EU and Japan, EU-Iraq, EU-Russia, EU-GCC, EU-China, EU-United States, at the Human Security Network (until 22/09) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP/political groups: week preparing for plenary session |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EESC: Conference: 'Vivre l'Europe: un défi pour la société européenne' (also 19) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Interinstitutional conference on mobility |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Kallas attends EP hearing on 'Lobbying Transparency' |
| 19/09 - | PROFONDVAL: - Seminar for College of Commissioners, and Margot Wallström, Franco Frattini and Louis Michel attend Commissioners' Group on Migration |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: - Ruling C-356/04 Lidl Belgium (approximation of legislation), Ruling C-506/04 Wilson, Ruling C-193/05 Commission/Luxembourg (freedom of establishment), Ruling combined cases C-392/04, C-422/04 i-21 Germany (freedom to provide services) |
| 20/09 - | TAMPERE: - Informal Justice and General Affairs Council (until 22/09) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Committee des Regions/Summer University, closing speech by Danuta Hübner on political cohesion in the EU, more growth and jobs in cities and regions |
| - | ROKYCANY/CZECH REP. - EP Citizen Forum on future of Europe |
| 21/09 - | RHODES: - Informal Competitiveness Council (also 22/09) |
| - | RHODES: - Euro-Mediterranean Industry Conference (also 22/09) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Conference of Presidents |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Vladimir Spidla to address conference on disability and European Social Fund organised by DG EMPL |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-113/04 P Technische Unie/Commission (competition), Ruling C-168/04 Commission/Austria (freedom to supply services) |
| 22/09 - | BRUSSELS: - Piebalgs to address public hearing on Green Paper 'European Strategy for Sustainable, Competitive and Secure Energy' |
| - | HORAZDOVICE/CZECH REP.: - EP Citizen Forum on Future of Europe |
| 24/09 - | OULU: - Agriculture and Fisheries Council (until 26/09) |
| 25/09 - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament plenary session (until 28/09) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Competitiveness Council |
| - | HELSINKI: - High Level Group on equality between men and women (also 26/09) |
OTHER EVENTS
| 18/09 - | BRUSSELS: -Vladimir Spidla to make opening address at EU-China seminar on 'The EU and China: experiences of employment and social policies' |
| - | SINGAPORE: - IMF/World Bank: annual summits (from 15 to 20/09) |
| 19/09 - | BRUSSELS: - EU-China: Joint Customs Cooperation Committee |
| - | PARIS: - Conference on biodiversity and EU development aid (until 21) |
| - | LONDON: - Annual conference on leisure and new technology 'Mobile Content World 2006' (until 21/09) |
| - | KOUROU: - Conference on space, defence and European security organised by the WEU Assembly and European Interparliamentary Conference on Space (until 22/09) |
| 20/09 - | KUOPIO: - Conference on 'Health in all Policies' organised by Finnish Presidency (also 21) |
| - | KIEL: - European Maritime Conference (also 21/09) |
| 21/09 - | HELSINKI: - 'Challenges of globalisation in a knowledge-based economy' (also 22/09) |
| - | SAINT-PETERSBURG: - Opening of European Heritage Days 2006 (until 23) |
| - | SAINT-PETERSBURG: - European conference on the Council of Europe action plan for the disabled 2006-2015 (also 22/09) |