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Weekly European Agenda

Weekly European Agenda | 04/04/2022

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04 – 10 April 2022

Monday 4 April

Tuesday 5 April

Wednesday 6 April

Thursday 7 April

Friday 8 April

Saturday 9 April

Institutional Agendas

European Parliament

Monday 4 April

Plenary session
Debates: Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Revision of the Market Stability Reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System; Use of vehicles hired without drivers for the carriage of goods by road; Implementation of citizenship education actions; Future of fisheries in the Channel, North Sea, Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean.

Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
Debates: Exchange of views with Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski, responsible for Agriculture, in the framework of the Structured Dialogue, including the presentation on the Communication on safeguarding food security and reinforcing the resilience of food systems.

Joint Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs/ Committee on Development (DEVE, LIBE)
Debates: Russia’s aggression against Ukraine – Implementation of the temporary protection directive and humanitarian assistance to the displaced population, in particular children – Exchange of views with Ylva Johansson, Commissioner for Home Affairs; Janez Lenarčič, Commissioner for Crisis Management; Representative of UNHCR; Representative of UNICEF.Joint meeting Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs/Committee on Development

Tuesday 5 April

Plenary session
Debates: Ukraine; Trans-European energy infrastructure; Guidelines for the 2023 budget – Section III; Situation in Afghanistan, in particular the situation of women’s rights; Outcome of the EU-China Summit (1 April 2022).
Votes: Equivalence of field inspections and of certain seed produced in Bolivia; Draft amending budget No 1/2022: adjustment of the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027.

Wednesday 6 April

Plenary session
Debates: Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 24-25 March 2022; Data Governance Act; Global approach to research and innovation: Europe’s strategy for international cooperation in a changing world; Ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Poland and Hungary; The Schengen evaluation mechanism; Violations of the right to asylum, life and non-refoulement in Greece; Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (Rule 144).

Thursday 7 April

Plenary session
Debates: The situation of marginalised Roma communities in the EU; Right to repair; Major interpellations (Rule 139).
Votes: Parliament’s estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2023.

Friday 8 April – Saturday 9 April

Plenary session of the Conference on the Future of Europe
The Conference’s Plenary will meet in Strasbourg, where the nine Working Groups on the different priority topics will present their consolidated proposals.

Find an overview of the parliamentary agenda here.

Council of Ministers

Monday 4 April

Eurogroup
The Eurogroup will meet in Luxembourg to discuss the Euro area macro-economic situation and outlook: The euro area impact from the war in Ukraine in the short; as well as the Banking Union Update including reporting on operational aspects: fifteenth hearing of the Chair of the Supervisory Board and reporting on recent activities of the Single Resolution Board.

Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council
Ministers are expected to discuss culture, audiovisual, media and sport: Mobility of artists and cultural and creative professionals; Cultural and creative industries ecosystem; Protecting the Ukrainian cultural sector and its actors; Adapting sport practices to the current environment; Promoting EU values through sport. Ministers will also be discussing other matters, such as : the election of the European Capital of Culture 2026, Trenčín; Naples Conference of the Ministers for Culture of the Euro-Mediterranean Region – first meeting of the EU Southern Partnership’s ministers for culture (Naples, 16-17 June 2022). The Croatian delegation will also provide information about a meeting between Croatian and Ukrainian museologists, conservators and restorers on 15 March 2022. Moreover, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania raised the need for coordination of European actions in the culture and media sector to support Ukraine. Ministers will also discuss the impact of the war in Ukraine on the sport sector in Europe. Poland will give an account of the impact of the Ukraine war on the European sport sector.

Tuesday 5 April

Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council
Ministers are expected to discuss education and youth: Effective European higher education cooperation; European strategy empowering higher education institutions; Enhancing teachers’ and trainers’ mobility; Strengthen crisis management and anticipation in the European education area; The mobility of young volunteers; Environment: fostering engagement among young people; and other business such as: Information from the presidency on the declaration of education ministers to build a shared vision on the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of education investments; Third high-level meeting of education ministers. In the framework of the ninth ‘Environment for Europe’ Ministerial Conference (Nicosia, 5-7 October 2022); Presidency report on the discussion held during the informal lunch in the framework of the EU youth dialogue; Work programme of the incoming Czech presidency on education and youth.

Economic and Financial Affairs Council
Ministers are expected to discuss Global minimum level of taxation for large corporations; Economic and financial aspects of Russia’s war in Ukraine; Preparation for G20 and International Monetary Fund meetings; European financial architecture for development: Ukraine; EU’s strategic autonomy in economic and financial affairs.

Thursday 7 April

Agriculture and Fisheries Council
Ministers are expected to discuss Food security; the Market situation for agricultural products; Carbon removals; as well as other matters such as Geographical indications and Highly pathogenic avian influenza.

An overview of planned Council meetings can be found here.

European Commission and High Representative

Monday 4 April

Gentiloni participates with the Executive-Vice President in a meeting with the European Stability Mechanism
Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni will participate with Executive-Vice President Dombrovskis in a bi-annual meeting with the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), in Luxembourg.

Tuesday 5 April

College meeting

Dalli hosts an event with Ukrainian civil society
Commissioner Helena Dalli will host a virtual roundtable event with national and international civil society organizations working on the ground in Ukraine.

Gabriel takes part in a joint meeting of European education and finance ministers
Commissioner Mariya Gabriel will take part in a joint meeting of European education and finance ministers in Luxembourg.

Šuica participates in the EP Plenary debate
Vice-President Dubravka Šuica will participate in the EP Plenary debate in Strasbourg on EU protection of children and young people fleeing because of war in Ukraine.

Wednesday 6 April

Gabriel participates in the EP Plenary – ERA – and voting session of the EP
Commissioner Mariya Gabriel will participate, in Strasbourg, in the EP Plenary – ERA – and voting session of the EP.

Friday 8 April

Šuica participates in the Plenary of the Conference on the Future of Europe
Vice-President Dubravka Šuica will be in Strasbourg and participate in the Plenary of the Conference on the Future of Europe.

Saturday 10 April

von der Leyen convenes the global pledging event ‘Stand Up For Ukraine’
President Ursula von der Leyen convenes the global pledging event ‘Stand Up For Ukraine’, together with Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau (remotely), and with the participation of the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda.

An overview of the Commission College can be found here; the Commissioners’ weekly activities can be found here; the agenda of upcoming College meetings can be found here; Commission events can be found here.

European Economic and Social Committee

Tuesday 5 April

Roadmap on security and defence technologies – Hearing
The European Economic and Social Committee is currently preparing an opinion on the roadmap on critical technologies of defence and security. Within the EESC, the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change is responsible for the preparation of the opinion. In order to gain insights by experts from relevant representatives of EU institutions and civil society, the Rapporteur (Maurizio Mensi), Corapporteur (Jan Pie) and President (Ivan Kokalov) of the Study Group that is drafting the opinion have decided to organise a hearing with institutional and civil society representatives.

Roma children and young people in public education: assessing the situation and the way forward
The EESC’s Thematic Study Group on the inclusion of the Roma is organising a remote public hearing on 5 April 2022. Whilst some progress has been registered in education, more work is clearly needed to achieve the new Roma framework’s objective of increasing effective equal access to quality inclusive mainstream education. The aim of the hearing is to discuss the situation of Roma children and young people in public education, particularly in view of the pandemic as well as segregation in education. It will also discuss measures on how to increase Roma participation in education and contribute to the debate around the European Year of Youth.

For an inclusive, sustainable, strengthened and efficient cohesion policy in Europe: the opinion of European civil society
In the context of the 8th Report on the progress towards achieving economic, social and territorial cohesion that the Commission adopted on 9 February 2022, the EESC is elaborating an opinion. In this framework, the EESC will organise a hearing together with the French ESC in Paris labelled as an event under the auspices of the French Presidency with the title “For an inclusive, sustainable, strengthened and efficient cohesion policy in Europe: the opinion of European civil society.” It will provide an important input to both the opinion and the Council conclusions in the second half of French Presidency. The hearing will provide an opportunity for the representatives of civil society to express their views on this important issue and propose possible solutions to achieve the recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.

Friday 8 April

Employment of young people with disabilities
The EESC is organising a public hearing on “Employment of young people with disabilities” on 8 April 2022. The aim of the event is to reflect on which steps the EU could take to make progress on this topic and contribute to the debate around the European Year of Youth.

More information about EESC events can be found here.
The agendas of the different EESC meetings can be found here.

Committee of the Regions

Tuesday 5 April

“Cohesion our Fundamental Value” – a contribution from Europe’s Islands to the Conference on the Future of Europe  
The event gathers together representatives from islands all over Europe to highlight their vision and contribution towards the Conference on the Future of Europe. Governors and local politicians will answer to the questions: Did the COFE take on board islands’ needs and requests so far? What happens after the COFE? Which future can we imagine for European islands?

Thursday 7 April

13th COTER commission meeting
Members will gather in this hybrid meeting to discuss: the new EU Arctic strategy; debate on the implications of the war in Ukraine for cohesion policy and cross-border cooperation; 8th report on economic, social and territorial cohesion; guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T); the New EU Urban Mobility Framework; the next generation of own resources for the EU budget.

More information about Committee of the Regions events can be found here. The agendas of the different Committee of the Regions meetings can be found here.

French Presidency

Monday 4 April

Market Access Day
The third Market Access Day will be devoted to promoting European Union trade agreements to businesses. Some of these agreements, even ones that provide major opportunities for European businesses, are still underused and not well known among businesses. This day will also be an occasion to familiarise businesses with the many trade policy instruments available to them. The discussions, led by the Deputy Director General responsible for trade rule enforcement at the Directorate General for Trade, will demonstrate the value of the European toolbox (e.g. Access2Markets portal, single points of entry, ROSA rules of origin self-assessment tool) and French resources (e.g. the regional solutions portal). The event will also highlight the European Union trade defence instruments to raise awareness of them among French and European businesses.

Monday 4 April – Tuesday 5 April

European Environmental Communication Network Meeting
This meeting will be an opportunity to discuss the approach to public information and communication on environmental issues in the Member States.

Tuesday 5 April

EU-US Justice and Home Affairs Senior Officials Meeting
European and American experts will come together at this meeting to identify opportunities to cooperate and find common ground on shared judicial concerns and potential joint responses to security challenges. It will be held in preparation for a meeting at the ministerial level which will take place on 23 June 2022.

Thursday 7 April

Meeting of European Environmental Assessment Experts
Environmental assessment is a process that aims to integrate environmental considerations into the development of a project or planning document from the initial stages of deliberations. The goal is to advise the project initiator and the administration on the project’s environmental impact in order to help them prevent, avoid and even offset this impact. At the meeting, national environmental assessment experts of the ministries for the environment of each Member State will discuss current issues in depth, in coordination with the Directorate-General for the Environment of the European Commission.

The agenda of the French Presidency of the Council of the EU can be found here.

European Ombudsman

Wednesday 6 April

College of Europe seminar
The European Ombudsman will give a seminar for the students of the College of Europe in Bruges on the work of her office. 

The EU Ombudsman calendar of activities can be found here.

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

Wednesday 6 April

Using European Citizens Initiatives for advocacy
FRA will run a webinar on the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) and how civil society organisations can make use of it. All civil society organisations from the FRA Fundamental Rights Platform will be invited to join. The webinar will discuss what a European Citizens’ Initiative is, how to use it for advocacy. It and will focus on participatory democracy and involvement of active citizens in policymaking. After an introduction by the European Commission and the European Citizen Action Service (ECAS), two ECI organisers ‘European Digital Rights (EDRi)’ and ‘Voters without Borders, Full Political Rights for EU Citizens’ will share their experiences. The European Commission’s Secretariat-General organises the event jointly with FRA.

Information on upcoming FRA events can be found here.

European Central Bank

Monday 4 April

Eurogroup meeting
Participation by Ms Lagarde, Mr Panetta and Mr Enria in Eurogroup meeting in Brussels, Belgium.

Tuesday 5 April

ECOFIN meeting
Participation by Mr de Guindos in ECOFIN meeting in Brussels, Belgium.

More information about ECB events can be found here. 

European Investment Bank

Thursday 7 April

Meeting No. 552 of the Board of Directors
In accordance with its Rules of Procedure, the EIB convenes the meetings of its Board of Directors at least six times a year. In line with the EIB Group Transparency Policy, the bank publishes the meeting agenda, as from four days before the meeting; and the minutes of the meeting, including the list of conflicts of interest declared by the participants with respect to a project to be financed. The minutes are in principle approved in the following meeting and are subsequently published on the bank’s website.

The agenda of the EIB can be found here.

Council of Europe

Monday 4 April

Conference of INGOs: Meeting of the Standing Committee
Open dialogue between the members of the Conference of INGOs and the Standing Committee on the work in the Council of Europe, expectations, and the actual situation.

Tuesday 5 April – Wednesday 6 April

General Assembly of the Conference of INGOs 
During this assembly, the members will discuss how to ensure respect for economic and social rights in times of war and of declining multilateralism. They will present the CURE Campaign and how to deal with the human rights defenders and human rights organisations from/in Russia. The Committee Rights of persons who are migrants on the actual situation will also be presented.

Find an overview of Council of Europe events here; the PACE diary here; the Congress calendar of events here; information on forthcoming judgments here; the calendar of hearings here; information on Venice Commission events here; the agenda of the Commissioner of Human Rights here; and the Chairmanship agenda here.

OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

Monday 4 April – Wednesday 6 April

22nd Conference of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons
The 22nd Conference of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons will focus on protection of and assistance to victims of trafficking – and specifically, the application of a victim-centred approach to support victims of trafficking in human beings and uphold their rights. It intends to draw attention to the importance of granting trafficking victims access to comprehensive assistance as part of a durable solution aimed at their full recovery and (re)integration. To this end, the conference will analyze some emerging patterns in State protection systems and approaches. It will offer guidance on how to expand existing mechanisms to ensure that they take into account victims’ views and experiences, are inclusive, non-discriminatory and human rights-based, and designed and implemented in a gender-sensitive and trauma-informed manner. Moreover, panelists will discuss how protection systems need to promptly adapt to take into account the vulnerabilities of the people seeking refuge from armed conflicts.

Monday 4 April

The inclusion of survivors’ voices to ensure a human rights-based and survivor-centred approach to combating human trafficking
The topic of this year’s 22nd High-Level Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Conference, which will take place from 4 to 6 April 2022 in Vienna/online, will focus on protection and assistance – and specifically the application of a victim-centred approach to support victims of trafficking in human beings and uphold their rights. In this respect, the side event will focus on: The different mediums that survivors use for awareness raising, including artwork; The overall need for inclusion of survivors’ voices and perspectives in policy-making in the OSCE region; and The importance of including survivors as key stakeholders in all anti-trafficking work as a way to ensure a human rights-based and victim and survivors-centred approach to combating human trafficking. The virtual presentation of survivors’ artwork will be conducted by Laurent Ziegler, Member of the International Survivors of Trafficking Advisory Council (ISTAC).

Tuesday 5 April

Effective National Referral Mechanisms to protect and promote the rights of victims and survivors of trafficking, especially children
The topic of this year’s 22nd High-Level Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Conference, which will take place from 4 to 6 April 2022 in Vienna/online, will focus on protection and assistance. In this respect, the side event organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Righs (ODIHR) will focus on: Key components and new features of ODIHR’s updated National Referral Mechanisms (NRM) Handbook; The NRM for children and the specific guidance for dealing with child victims of trafficking; and The overall importance to establish and strengthen NRMs with a human rights-based, gender-sensitive, trauma-informed, survivor and victim-centered and child-appropriate approach. The updated NRM Handbook will be presented by Tatiana Kotlyarenko, ODIHR Adviser on Anti-Trafficking Issues, and Rachel Witkin, lead project consultant and Head of Counter-Trafficking, Helen Bamber Foundation.

More information can be found here.

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