EUROPEAN UNION
| 12/01 - | BRUSSELS: - Extraordinary Energy Council |
| - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: plenary session (until 15/01) |
| - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: Committees: Budgets; Economic and Monetary Affairs; Women's Rights and Gender Equality |
| 13/01 - | STRASBOURG: - Meeting of the European Commission |
| - | STRASBOURG: - EP/plenary: Speech by Valdis Zatlers, President of Latvia |
| - | STRASBOURG: - EP: the European Parliament celebrates first ten years of the euro. Formal sitting in plenary: speeches by ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet, Eurogroup chair Jean-Claude Juncker, and EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, attended by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing - Debate and speeches by the various political groups and the two co-rapporteurs responsible for drawing up the EP's report on the first ten years of EMU, Pervenche Berès (PES, France) and Werner Langen (EPP-ED, Germany). - Conference on the euro and managing the economic and financial crisis |
| - | STRASBOURG: - EP: Foreign Affairs Committee |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Policy and Security Committee |
| 14/01 - | STRASBOURG: - EP/ plenary: Presentation of the Czech Presidency programme - Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek will discuss with MEPs and the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, the programme of the Czech Presidency of the EU - Council statement. - Debate on current topics - the situation in the Middle East and Gaza, supply of Russian gas to the EU and Ukraine, statements from the Council and Commission on the situation in the Horn of Africa and the EU's strategy vis-a-vis Belarus |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Economic and Social Committee: plenary session (also 15/01) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - COREPER II |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of First Instance: Ruling T-162/06 Kronoply/Commission (state aid) |
| 15/01 - | PRAGUE: - Meeting of EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers (also 16/01) |
| - | CAPE TOWN: - EU and South Africa summit (also 16/01) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the EU COASI troika (Asia and Australasia working group) - Russia |
| - | STRASBOURG: - EP/plenary: debates (and voting) on violations of human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Iran, Guinea and Kenya |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-140/07 Hecht-Pharma, Ruling C-495/07 Silberquelle, Ruling C-539/07 Commission/Italy (approximation of legislation), Ruling C-281/07 Bayerische Hypotheken- und Vereinsbank, Ruling C-502/07 K-1 (taxation), Ruling C-383/07 M-K Europa (industrial policy), Ruling C-259/08 Commission/Greece (environment and consumers) |
| - | FRANKFURT: - ECB: European Central Bank Governing Council |
| 16/01 - | KIEV: - EU-Ukraine meeting |
| 16/01 - | BRUSSELS: - Policy and Security Committee |
| 19/01 - | BRUSSELS: - Agriculture and Fisheries Council |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Eurogroup |
OTHER EVENTS
| 12/01 - | GENEVA: - United Nations High Commission for Human Rights/Children's Rights Committee: 50th meeting (until 30/01) |
| 14/01 - | TOKYO: - G8 ministerial conference Global Environment and Energy in Transport (until 16) |
| 15/01 - | BERLIN: - Start of Green Week (until 17/01) - Speech by Mariann Fischer Boel |
| 16/01 - | BRUSSELS: - High-level group on cars holds ministerial meeting on the car industry |
| 19/01 - | GENEVA: - United Nations High Commission for Human Rights /Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): 43rd meeting (until 6/02) |