| 23/05 | Brussels: - General Affairs Council |
| Brussels: - Foreign Affairs Council (security and defence). Meeting between defence ministers and board of European Defence Agency | |
| Brussels: - European Parliament: Committee meetings: transport and tourism (until 25); constitutional affairs (also 24); petitions (also 24); legal affairs (also 24), workshop on mediation in civil and trade cases before and after EU mediation directive | |
| Brussels: - EESC and European Commission conference on global food security and ensuring everyone gets enough to eat | |
| Brussels: - 5th European Integration Meeting (EESC) (also 24/05) | |
| Paris: - OECD Week: Council meeting and forum on the 50th anniversary of the OECD (until 25) | |
| 24/05 | Brussels: - Foreign Affairs Council (development cooperation) |
| Brussels: - Meeting of the European Commission - On the agenda: - Report on the updating of the European neighbourhood policy (ENP); - Report on a single market for intellectual property rights; - Presentation of a broad approach to floods of immigrants from the southern Mediterranean; - Report on looking after taxpayers' money | |
| Brussels: - European Parliament: Speech by EP President Jerzy Buzek at a joint meeting of EP committees and national parliamentary committees on strengthening competition and improving energy supply using smart energy and building energy corridors. - Committee meetings: agriculture and rural development (also 25); fisheries (also 25); civil liberties (also 25). - Public hearings: - Reforming the general preference system (foreign trade committee); Updating public procurement (internal market committee) | |
| Luxembourg: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-47/08 Commission/Belgium, Ruling C-50/08 Commission/France, Ruling C-51/08 Commission/Luxembourg, Ruling C-52/08 Commission/Portugal, C-53/08 Commission/Austria, C-54/08 Commission/Germany, Ruling C-61/08 Commission/Greece (freedom of establishment), Ruling C-83/09 P Commission/Kronoply and Kronotex (institutional law) | |
| Brussels: - Green Week - Energy efficiency (until 27/05) | |
| 25/05 | Brussels: - COREPER II, COREPER I |
| Brussels: - European Parliament: Committee meetings: regional development (also 26); culture/education (also 26); women's rights. - Public hearings: - 'Rio+20' (environment committee); - Peer review in the services directive (internal market committee); - Social, economic and political challenges in Iraq (foreign affairs committee) | |
| Lappeenranta, Finland: - Second EU-Russia Innovation Forum (also 26/05) | |
| Leipzig: - International Transport Forum summit, organised by the OECD (until 27/05) | |
| 26/05 | Deauville: - G8 summit on shaping and supporting a world in flux (also 27/05) |
| Brussels: - European Parliament: Public hearings: - Making the cohesion policy more results-focused (regional development committee); - Disadvantaged youth and education (culture and education committee) | |
| Luxembourg: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-485/07 Akdas et al. (foreign relations), Ruling C-306/08 Commission/Spain (freedom of establishment), Ruling C-293/10 Stazrk (freedom to supply services), Ruling in Joined Cases C-165/09-C-166/09-C-167/09 Stichting Natuur en Milieu (environment) | |
| 27/05 | Brussels: - Transport, Telecoms and Energy Council (telecoms) |
| Budapest & Gödöllõ: - Eastern Partnership summit | |
| 28/05 | Brussels: - EU-Japan summit |
| 29/05 | Debrecen, Hungary: - Meeting of EU agriculture ministers (until 31/05) |