EUROPEAN UNION
| 22/01 - | BRUSSELS: - General Affairs/External Relations Council (and 23/01); |
| BRUSSELS: - EU-Montenegro Ministerial Troika | |
| BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: Committees: environment, public health and food safety (and 23); industry, research and energy (and 23); transport and tourism (to 24); constitutional affairs (and 23); human rights; regional development (and 23) - public hearing: «the impact of structural policies on EU cohesion»; sub-committee on security and defence (and 23). | |
| 23/01 - | BRUSSELS: - EU-OSCE ministerial Troika. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Committees: foreign affairs (to 25); international trade (and 24); budgetary control (and 24); economic and monetary affairs (and 24); employment and social affairs (and 24); internal market and consumer protection (to 25); agriculture and rural development (and 24); women's rights and gender equality (and 24); temporary commission on alleged use of European countries by CIA for transport and illegal detention of prisoners. - Public hearings «corporate liability» (sub-committee on human rights); «proposed regulation on roaming» (industry and internal market committees). |
| 24/01 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: Committees: budgets (and 25); citizens' freedoms, justice and internal affairs (and 25). - Public hearing «Global Europe - competitiveness on external markets» (international trade committee) |
| - | HAARLEM/N.L.: - European Parliament Citizens' Forum on Future of Europe. |
| 25/01 - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: Fisheries committee; committee of inquiry on crisis in Equitable Life company. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference on «Regions, actors for economic change - Regional policy responses to demographic challenge» (and 26). |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling Joint Affairs C-403/04 P, C-405/04 P Sumitomo Metal Industries / Commission, C-407/04 P Dalmine / Commission, C-411/04 P Salzgitter Mannesmann / Commission (competition), C-278/05 Robins, C-370/05 Festersen (free movement of persons), C-48/05 Adam Opel, C-321/03 Dyson (approximation of legislation). |
| 26/01 - | MADRID: - Meeting of 18 Member States that have already ratified the Constitutional Treaty (+ Portugal, Ireland). |
| 29/01 - | BRUSSELS: - Agriculture and Fisheries Council. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of Eurogroup. |
OTHER EVENTS
| 22/01 - | STRASBOURG: - Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: session (to 26/01). |
| - | COPENHAGEN: - Informal meeting of OECD Education Ministers on vocational training, organised by the Education Directorate and Danish authorities (and 23/01). |
| - | NAIROBI/KENYA: - World Social Forum (to 25/01). |
| - | NEW DELHI: - World Sustainable Development Forum: Exploring the Natural Resource Dimensions, organised by the Energy and Resources Institute, India (to 24/01). |
| 24/01 - | DAVOS: - Annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (to 28/01). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Workshop on RFID technology in daily lives of Europeans: the citizens' point of view on intelligent systems around us, chaired by Jorgo Chatzimarkakis (STOA/EP panel). |
| 25/01 - | PARIS: - Conference on Lebanon. |
| - | BERLIN: - Speech by Mr Kyprianou at Agricultural Policy Forum. |
| 26/01 - | BRUSSELS: - NATO/North Atlantic Council: foreign ministers . |
| - | FREIBURG: - Speech by Mr Figel at seminar on current questions of European culture and media policy. |