EUROPEAN UNION
| 16/10 - | LUXEMBOURG: - General Affairs and External Relations Council (also 17/10) |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Joint Trade and Development ministerial meeting |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament/political groups: preparing for upcoming plenary session |
| - | CANARY ISLANDS: - EP Greens/EFA group's 'Parliamentary Days' on immigration policy and its impact in the EU (until 19/10) |
| - | LONDON: - EP temporary committee delegation meeting on crisis surrounding Equitable Life insurance company |
| 17/10 - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: International Trade Committee; special meeting of Bureau of Foreign Trade Committee |
| - | BUCHAREST: - EP temporary investigative committee delegation meeting on alleged illegal CIA activities in Europe (until 19/10) |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of First Instance: Ruling T-499/04 Hammarplast/OHIM, Ruling T-483/04 Armour Pharmaceutical/OHIM (intellectual property), Ruling on combined cases T-432/03, T-95/05 Dehon/Parliament (terms of conditions of officials) |
| 18/10 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of European Commission |
| 19/10 - | HELSINKI: - EPP Summit |
| - | BRUSSELS: - PES conference on Economic Partnership Agreements with ACP states (EP) |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of First Instance: Ruling on combined cases T-350/04, T-351/04, T-352/04 Bitburger Brauerei/OHIM (intellectual property) |
| 20/10 - | LAHTI/FINLAND: - Informal summit of heads of state |
| - | LAHTI/FINLAND: - Tripartite Social Summit |
| 23/10 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Environment Council |
| - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament plenary (until 26/10) |
OTHER EVENTS
| 16/10 - | BRUSSELS: - Security and Defence Agenda Conference |
| 17/10 - | BRUSSELS: - Seminar on 'Working time and work-life balance: a policy dilemma?' (at EP) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - UNICE conference on 'Why do companies care about a European Growth and Jobs Strategy' |
| 18/10 - | BRUSSELS: - EP/STOA (Scientific and Technological Options Assessment): European Nanoscience forum on a convergent multi-disciplinary approach |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Seminar on launch of MEP Andrew Duff (ALDE, UK)'s publication 'Plan B: how to save the European Constitution' |
| - | TREVES: - European Road Traffic Days (organised by the Institute for European Road Traffic Law and the Academy of European Law ERA) (until 20/10) |
| - | MOSCOW: - Council of Europe forum on future of democracy ('The role of political parties in building democracy') (also 19/10) |
| 19/10 - | PARIS: - Conference on 'L'agriculture mondiale en panne de stratégie: comment concilier libéralisme et développement?' organised by Movement for a World Agriculture Organisation |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Debate on 'Europa, quo vadis?' organised by the EP's information bureau |
| - | ROME: - 3rd Council of Europe seminar on human trafficking (also 20/10) |
| - | ATHENS: - EIB Forum 2006 |
| 20/10 - | BRUSSELS: - Conference organised by 'Réalités européennes du présent' with the EP's Belgian Bureau on 'L'Union européenne entre l'expectative et l'initiative' (at EP) (also 21/10) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - 23rd annual conference on competition policy organised by AmCham |
| - | MOSCOW: - Conference of Council of Europe sports ministers (also 21/10) |
| 21/10 - | CAIRNS: - Cairns Group ministerial meeting (until 23/10) |
| 23/10 | BERLIN: - 5th annual congress on European defence (also 24/10) |