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Weekly European Agenda

Weekly European Agenda | 02/03/2020

02-08 March 2020

Monday 02 March

Tuesday 03 March

Wednesday 04 March

Thursday 05 March

Friday 06 March

Institutional Agendas

European Parliament

Monday 2 March

Committee on Budgets
Vote on the  annual report of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank.  Exchange of views on any information received on building policy. 

Wednesday 4 March

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Vote on the European Semester for economic policy coordination: Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2020. 

Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
The committee will hold an extraordinary meeting. On the agenda: exchange of views with Greta Thunberg, climate activist.

Thursday 5 March

Inter-parliamentary Committee Meeting
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM), in collaboration with the Directorate for Relations with National Parliaments, will organise an Inter-parliamentary Committee Meeting on “The 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action”. The event will take a look back on progress achieved on gender equality and forward to anticipate future challenges. The participants will have an opportunity to take stock of achievements and best practices, as well as of the remaining challenges of this important agenda of women’s empowerment in order to accelerate the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by 2030.

Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Vote on Amending Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on a Union Civil Protection Mechanism. Exchange of views with the European Court of Auditors on Special Report No 05/2020 on Sustainable use of plant protection products: limited progress in measuring and reducing risks.

Find an overview of the parliamentary agenda here.

Council of Ministers

Wednesday 4 March – Thursday 5 March

Informal meeting of defence ministers
An informal meeting of EU defence ministers will be held in Zagreb on 4 and 5 March 2020, and will be organized by the Ministry of Defence. Ministers will exchange views on the latest developments in the field of the EU Common Security and Defence Policy. The topics in focus will be defence initiatives strengthening the European security and defence cooperation, the promotion of security and stability in the immediate neighbourhood, facing hybrid and cyber threats, and enhancing the EU-NATO cooperation. The meeting will be chaired by the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

Thursday 5 March – Friday 6 March

Informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers
The Croatian Presidency of the Council of the EU will host the Informal Meeting of EU Foreign Affairs Ministers (Gymnich) in Dvorac, Lužnica.

An overview of planned Council meetings can be found here.

European Commission and High Representative

Monday 2 March

Vice-President Schinas meets Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany
Vice-President Schinas will meet Heiko Maas, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany.

Commissioner Gentiloni delivers a speech on EPPO
Commissioner Gentiloni will deliver a speech at the European House Ambrosetti “New European Commission – Priorities and Challenges” in Rome, Italy. 

Commissioner Urpilainen meets Finnish Minister of the Interior
Commissioner Urpilainen will meet Ms Maria Ohisalo, Finnish Minister of the Interior.

Tuesday 3 March

Commissioner Reynders delivers a speech 
Commissioner Reynders will give a speech at the conference “Effective and independent EPPO from a budgetary perspective”.

Commissioner Lenarčič meets the Director of “Education Cannot Wait”
Commissioner Lenarčič will meet Ms Yasmine Sherif, the Director of ‘Education Cannot Wait’. 

Commissioner Várhelyi receives the Chairman of the Council of Ministers
Commissioner Várhelyi will meet Mr Zoran Tegeltija, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

Wednesday 4 March

College meeting
Possible items for oral procedure: European Climate Law, European Gender Equality Strategy, a comprehensive Strategy with Africa. Other relevant event: International Women’s Day on 8 March 2020. 

Commissioner Hahn receives Vice President of the European Economic and Social Committee
Commissioner Hahn will receive Milena Angelova, Vice-President of the European Economic and Social Committee

Commissioner Gentiloni meets with Prime Minister of Belgium
Commissioner Gentiloni will meet Sophie Wilmès, Prime Minister of Belgium

Thursday 5 March

Commissioner Ferreira receives Lilyana Pavlova
Commissioner Ferreira receives Vice-President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) – Ms Lilyana Pavlova.

Commissioner Gentiloni delivers a speech on taxation
Commissioner Gentiloni delivers a speech “Making tax work for all” at the European Policy Centre in Brussels, Belgium. 

Commissioner Urpilainen receives the President of the European Disability Forum
Commissioner Urpilainen receives Mr Yannis Vardakastanis, President of the European Disability Forum and his delegation

Friday 6 March

Commissioner Dalli speaks at Council event on gender equality
Commissioner Dalli will deliver a speech at the Croatian Presidency’s International Women’s Day Breakfast Event “Strong Women – Strong European Union”.

Commissioner Wojciechowski receives Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities of Denmark
Commissioner Wojciechowski receives Mr Dan Jørgensen, Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities of Denmark

Vice-President Schinas participates at the session “The New Political Cycle of the European Commission” 
Vice-President Schinas participates at the session “The New Political Cycle of the European Commission” at the “Delphi Economic Forum” in Greece.

A full list with meetings of Commissioners can be found here; the Commissioners’ weekly activities can be found here; the agenda of the College Meetings can be found here; Commission events can be found here.

European Economic and Social Committee

Monday 2 March 

INT Section Meeting
Meeting of the Section for the Single Market, Production and Consumption (INT)

Tuesday 3 March 

SOC Section Meeting
Meeting of the Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship (SOC) 

Thursday 5 March 

TEN Section Meeting 
Meeting of the Section for Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society

Friday 6 March

NAT Section Meeting
Meeting of the Section for Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment

Exhibition “Female Notes”
To commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day (8 March), the EESC is staging an exhibition entitled “Female Notes”. Taking the form of biographical panels of female composers and musicians from the nineteenth century, the exhibition traces the social identity of female musicians from that time to the present day and pays tribute to hundreds of female artists across Europe as it also traces the evolution of musical culture.

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

Committee of the Regions

Monday 2 March

2nd ECON Commission Meeting
ECON members will discuss financial instruments for cohesion, multi-annual financial framework (MFF), European semester / Economic Governance, Trade. 

Stakeholder Consultation on “The Future of EU Clean Air policy in the framework of the zero-pollution ambition” 
The Committee of the Regions is preparing an opinion on “The Future of EU Clean Air policy in the framework of the zero-pollution ambition”. The rapporteur Mr János Ádám Karácsony (HU/EPP) Member of Tahitótfalu Council and member of the CoR Commission for Environment, Climate Change and Energy (ENVE) wishes to discuss the proposal of a Zero pollution action plan for water, air and soil, scheduled for 2021, and exchange best practices with relevant stakeholders. 

Tuesday 3 March

2nd COTER Commission Meeting
COTER members will discuss territorial cohesion, urban policy, urban mobility.

Thursday 5 March

2nd Meeting of the NAT Commission 
NAT members will discuss forestry, food production, fisheries and maritime affairs, tourism, public health. 

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.

Croatian Presidency

Tuesday 3 March

Working Party on International Environment Issues
The meeting will be held in Zagreb and will discuss the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement in the part dealing with the general, legal and expert issues of these international treaties. Experts from EU Member States will agree on a common position to be endorsed by the Council Working Group, and the European Union will present the same at a meeting of the Subsidiary Bodies of the United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement later this year.

The agenda of the Croatian Presidency can be found here.

European Ombudsman

Tuesday 3 March

Meeting with European Public Prosecutor’s Office
Introductory meeting between the Ombudsman and Ms Laura Codruta Kövesi, the Chief Prosecutor.

The EU Ombudsman calendar of activities can be found here.

European Data Protection Supervisor

Monday 2 March

Wiewiórowski meets Vestager
Wojciech Wiewiórowski meeting with Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for a Europe fit for the Digital Age, Brussels, Belgium

Tuesday 3 March

Wiewiórowski meets Jourová
Wojciech Wiewiórowski meeting with Věra Jourová, Vice-President for Values and Transparency at the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Wednesday 4 March

Wiewiórowski meets Goyens
Wojciech Wiewiórowski meeting with Monique Goyens, Director General at BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation, Brussels, Belgium

Find more information on EDPS events here. 

European Investment Bank

Monday 2 March

Conference on ‘Investment to support digitalisation and the climate transition in France’
The European Investment Bank and Banque de France will organise a conference, which aims to bring together researchers from central banks, academia, policy-making institutions and the private sector. The conference will focus on how to help overcome the current investment gap by mobilising private financing to support digitalisation and the climate transition in France

The agenda of the EIB can be found here.

Council of Europe

Friday 6 March

PACE Standing Committee meets in Paris
The Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will meet in Paris. The parliamentarians will debate the functioning and future of the Parliamentary Assembly, prevention of violence and discrimination against religious minorities amongst refugees in Europe, as well as the observation of early parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan that took place on 9 February 2020. Participants will also debate the prevention of violence and discrimination against religious minorities amongst refugees in Europe. 

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.

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