EUROPEAN UNION
| 30/10 - | HELSINKI: - EU-Russia Permanent Partnership Council (JHA wing) |
| - | ATHENS: - Josep Borrell, EP President, makes official visit to Greece (also 31/10) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Verheugen attends 'High Level Group Energy' meeting |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Spidla addresses Demography Forum |
| 31/10 - | BRUSSELS: - Political and Security Committee |
| 2/11 - | FRANKFURT: - ECB: - Meeting of European Central Bank's Governing Council |
| 3/11 - | VERONA: - Conference of transport ministers on Innovative Approaches to Road Safety |
| 6/11 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of Eurogroup |
| - | HÄMEENLINNA: - Meeting of network on employment information systems (also 7/11) |
| 7/11 - | BRUSSELS: - ECOFIN Council - Ministerial meeting with EFTA countries - ECOFIN Troika with representatives of European Parliament |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Employment and Social Affairs Council |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: hearing in case C-17/06 Céline (approximation of legislation) |
OTHER EVENTS
| 30/10 - | ATHENS: - Forum on management of the internet (until 2/11) - Reding makes speech on 'The Internet - key to freedom, democracy and economic development' |
| - | LISBON: - Jose Manuel Barroso attends 'Diario de Noticias' conference |
| - | HELSINKI: - Hübner addresses Baltic Development Forum |
| - | BRUGES: - Opening speech for 2006-2007 academic year at the College of Europe by Jean-Claude Juncker, the prime minister of Luxembourg, on 'Le besoin d'Europe' (the need for Europe) |
| - | MOSCOW: - Piebalgs attends conference on 'Complementarities of EU and Russian energy strategies in Moscow' organised under EU-Russia Energy Dialogue, and attends plenary on 31 October on ''Global Energy Industry - Current Challenges and Opportunities' as part of International Energy Week |
| - | BAKU: - Technical seminar on establishing a financial investigation unit in Azerbaijan to combat money laundering and the funding of terrorist activities, attended by Azerbaijan authorities, US ambassador and Council of Europe Secretary General's Special Representative in Baku, Denis Bribosia) (also 31) |
| 1/11 - | ATHENS: - Reding makes opening speech at '4th international Forum 'Digital Greece' Setting Technology in its Right Dimension' |
| - | STRASBOURG: - Film festival highlighting Roma in Europe organised by the Council of Europe: Roma Film Fortnight (until 14/11) |
| 2/11 - | BUDAPEST: - Speech by Reding on 'The role of Public Service Broadcasters in a vibrant and pluralist digital media landscape' at the European Broadcasting Union conference on 'From secret service to public service' |
| 4/11 - | URUGUAY: - Latin American Summit (also 5/11) |
| 6/11 - | NAIROBI: - 12th Conference of the parties on the UN climate change convention (until 17/11) |
| - | MAASTRICHT: - EIAP seminar (European Institute for Public Administration) to discuss activities and value added of various EU agencies (until 8/11) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference on 'Global NATO: Overdue or Overstretch' organised by Security & Defence Agenda |
| - | LIVORNO: - CPMR seminar (Conference of the Peripheral Maritime Regions) on European maritime policy governance |
| - | BRUSSELS: - 'Re-fashioning the UN for the 21st Century' (Les Amis de l'Europe and United Nations Regional Information Center for Western Europe UNRIC) |
| 7/11 - | BRUSSELS: - Round-Table Conference on Biofuels (Houthoff Buruma: http://www.houthoff.com ) |