Today in the EU
EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton is on the second day of an official visit to Brazil.
Economics and monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn holds a press conference in Brussels on prevention and correction of macroeconomic imbalances.
Internal market and services commissioner Michel Barnier holds a press conference in Brussels on commission proposals for a European statute for foundations.
The college of commissioners hold their weekly meeting in Brussels.
Daily Diary
The Parliament Magazine hosts the European Public Affairs Action Day 2012, in association with SEAP, Acumen Public Affairs, APCO Worldwide, Fleishman-Hillard, Hill & Knowlton, Kellen Europe and FTI Consulting.
The Danish Ministry of the Environment organises a conference on ESPON (European Spatial Planning Observatory Network) monitoring committee.
The Committee of the Regions organises a stakeholder consultation on the Commission’s communication on the global approach to migration and mobility.
The EPP Group holds a hearing on the future of roaming, hosted by Angelika Niebler MEP and a conference entitled how can logistics improve peoples’ lives.
The S&D Group hosts a conference on upholding freedom of movement: an improved Schengen governance.
The ALDE Group holds two events:
A seminar on EU citizenship, homelessness and EU free movement, in collaboration with FEANTSA and Eurodiaconia.
A seminar on the new CAP: Auditors’ view of the quality and efficiency of agriculture expenditure.
The Greens/EFA Group organises two events:
A hearing on the international agreement on a fiscal stability union: the conclusions of the legal opinions.
A joint roundtable on patents on plants and animals.
The ECR Group holds a seminar on Kashmir.
The GUE/NGL Group holds a hearing on Local authorities in Europe as targets of neo-liberal policies but also as places of resistance and of alternative projects.
The European parliament Intergroup on Climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development holds a conference, hosted by MEP Pat the Cope Gallagher (ALDE, IE), on Shaping the future of the Common Fisheries Policy.
The Committee of the Regions holds a stakeholder consultation meeting on the communication from the Commission on the global approach to migration and mobility.
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe host their 7th annual European market liquidity conference in London.
The European Policy Centre holds a briefing on the 2011 Revolutions: how demography is sweeping away the old order.
The French Institute of International Relations, in collaboration with CERMAM, organises a conference in Paris on the Arabic Diplomacy of Qatar.
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung holds two events:
A conference on Crisis management and economic governance in the EU.
A public debate entitled Lessons learned: the Norwegian experience, example for a European gender quota?
IDDRI and Bruegel are co-organise a conference on Stepping up the role of the ERS in EU energy sector decarbonisation.
The Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPRM) holds a meeting on How can the EU 2014-2020 cohesion policy integrate the EU’s island dimension?
BirdLife International holds an event on Green jobs: How can the EU budget deliver?
PV Legal, an EU funded project, hosts an event on the RES Directive: successes and failures.
In the Institutions
Council of Ministers
COREPER II
Brussels
European Commission
Siim Kallas receives Sam Palmisano, CEO of IBM
Siim Kallas delivers a keynote speech at the European Rail Awards (Brussels)
Antonio Tajani delivers the speech “Comment la politique de cohesion 2014 -2020 peut - elle prendre en compte la dimension insulaire de l’UE?” at the Conference of Peripheral and Maritime regions of Europe (Brussels)
Antonio Tajani receives Dr Kandeh K. Yumkella, Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) (Brussels)
Antonio Tajani receives IBM Board: Sam J. Palmisano, President and Harry Van Dorenmalen, Chairman Europe and Chris Padilla
Antonio Tajani receives Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Danish President of the EU Council
Antonio Tajani participates in a dinner with Apostolic Nuncio at Comece (Brussels)
Janez Potocnik participates in the "4th EU-China Dialogue on Environmental Policy at Ministerial Level" meeting (Brussels)
Janez Potocnik delivers the closing speech at the Seminar "Sustainable Consumption and Production as a vehicle for Green Growth" on the results of SWITCH Asia and its applicability to other developing regions (Silken Berlaymont, Brussels)
Andris Piebalgs attends the Official European launch of the UN Year of Sustainable Energy for all (Brussels)
Andris Piebalgs receives Kandeh K. Yumkella, Director-General of United Nations Industrial Development Organization
John Dalli receives Dominique Reiniche, President of Coca Cola Europe Group
John Dalli receives Professor Michel Komajda, President of the European Society of Cardiology
John Dalli receives Monique Goyens, Director General of BEUC (Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs)
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn receives Samuel J Palmisano, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, IBM Corporation
Günther Oettinger receives Thomas Webel, Minister for Regional Development and Transport of the Saxony-Anhalt
Connie Hedegaard receives the Board of Directors of the Danish Energy Industries Federation
Connie Hedegaard receives Kandeh K. Yumkella, UNIDO Director General
Cecilia Malmström in Stockholm: delivers a speech at a seminar on Organised Crime in Europe organised by the European Commission representation in Stockholm
European Parliament
Press conferences
14:00 - 14:30 EU citizenship, Homelessness and EU free movement
Brussels, Paul Henri Spaak building, Room 0A50 "Anna Politkovskaya"
Niccolò Rinaldi (ALDE, IT), Cecilia Wikström (ALDE, SE), Freek Spinnewijn (Director FEANTSA) and Heather Roy, Secretary General of Eurodiaconia
