June 1-2 | Venice 71st plenary session of the Venice Commission will adopt a draft opinion on urban planning in Albania, a draft opinion on the draft Constitution for Montenegro, and an opinion on the draft law of People's advocate of Kosovo June 2 | Helsinki Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn meets Serbian President Boris Tadic in Finland June 2 | Paris Balkan Beats Party at "A La Java" from 21:00 - traditional and modern beats from the Balkans June 3-10 | European Youth Week June 4 | Brussels Macedonian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Milososki, will address the Committee for Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament (AFET) around 15h June 4 | Zagreb European Commissioner for Regional development, Danuta Hubner, visits Croatia where she will meet with PM Ivo Sanader and President Stjepan Mesic June 5 | Brussels Macedonian mission to NATO's exhibition in NATO HQ in prevision of the Euro Atlantic Partnership Council to be held in Ohrid at the end of June. The mayor of Ohrid will address the public at the beginning of the cocktail: 17:00 June 5-7 | Belgrade Member of the European Parliament and rapporteur for Serbia,Jelko Kacin, visits Serbia. Mr Kacin will meet, among others, Oliver Dulic, Speaker of the National Assembly, Vojislav Kostunica, Bozidar Djelic, Tanja Miscevic. For further details contact Serbian Mission to the EU (0032.649.8242) June 6 | Brussels European Policy Centre: Policy Dialogue at Résidence Palace on "Citizens' perspective on the future of Europe" with European Commission Vice President Margot Wallstrom and Former Slovenian PM, Alojz Peterle. 15:30-17:00 June 6-7 | Brussels First European Security and Safety Summit June 6-8 | Heiligendamm G8 Summit under German Presidency June 7-8 | Bucharest "Comabting discrimination and promoting mutual respect and understanding" meeting organized bu the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) June 7-8 | Kolasin (Montenegro) OSCE meeting on "Money laundering and suppressing financial terrorism" June 8 | Brussels "NATO and ESDP: Forging new links": Conference by Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung with NATO GenSec, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, US Ambassador to NATO, Victoria Nuland. At 09:00 in Bibliothèque Solvay, Parc Léopold June 11 | Skopje European Commission Vice-President Sim Kallas, in charge of anti-fraud, will meet with Macedonian PM, Nikola Gruevski, Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki and Finance Minister, Trajko Slaveski June 11-12 | Sarajevo International conference organized by the French-Austrian Centre on the economic and social development in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo. Clickhere for the program June 11 | Brussels
European Policy Centre: briefing on the priorities of the Portuguese presidency June 12 | Luxemburg Justice and Home Affairs Council June 12 | Brussels Pre-GAERC media briefing (General Affairs and external relations Council - EU) at 11:00 - avenue des Gaulois, 7. Organized by Oxfam, Human Rights Watch and the International Crisis Group. This is the first such meeting by the three organisations and the intention is to hold similar meetings one week before every GAERC June 12 | Brussels European Policy Centre Dialogue on "Equal Protection? Approaches to counter trafficking in the EU and the Balkans" from 15:00 to 17:30, at Hotel Silken, bvd Charlemagne. With Baroness Sarah Ludford, MEP and other guest speakers. June 13 | Brussels
Serbia resumes negotiations on Stabilisation and Association with the EU, following the positive assessment of Chief Prosecutor, Carla Del Ponte of serbian cooperation with the Hague Tribunal. June 13 | Brussels Serbia, Croatia and Macedonia to sign association Agreement with 7th research framework program with the EU (FP7). The ceremony will take place in the Berlaymont building (European Commission) at 17:00. Please register at comm-rtd-press@ec.europa.eu. The ministers of the three countries will meet with Commissioner Janez Potocnik Background info: The 7th Research Framework Program gathers all research-related EU initiatives under one roof. The objectives of FP7 are grouped into four categories: Cooperation, Ideas, People and Capacities. For each objective there is a specific program corresponding to the main areas of EU research policy. All programs work together to promote and encourage the creation of European poles of (scientific) excellence.
June 14-15 | Brussels North Atlantic Council (NAC) Defence Ministers meet with Euro Atlantic Partnership Council and NATO Russia Council defence ministers as well as non NATO ISAF contributors.
June 18 | Paris Conference on "Les contentieux croato-slovènes depuis 1991" organized by La Maison des Sciences de l'homme from 17:00 to 19:00
June 18-19 | Luxemburg General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) June 18-21 | Strasbourg Plenary Session of the European ParliamentJune 19 | Strasbourg European Commission Vice President, Franco Frattini, meets with Serbian Deputy PM Bozidar Djelic June 20 | Ljubljana Lecture on "Kosovo's independence as the final act of the Balkan drama" in the framework of the lecture cycle "The Western Balkans and the EU". The lecture will be given by Drago Flis, foreign policy commentator on Radio Slovenia at 16:30 in "Center Evropa", Dalmatinova, 4. Confirm participation at info@center-evropa.si
June 20 | Brussels European Policy Centre (EPC) organizes a briefing on "Serbia: latest developments and future prospects" from 14:00 to 15:30 in Résidence Palace: Maelbeek Room. Speakers include Heather Grabbe, advisor to EU Commissioner Olli Rehn and Bozidar Djelic, Serbian Deputy PM June 21 | Brussels European Policy Centre: briefing with the Hungarian Prime Minister, Fenec Gyurcsany June 21 | Brussels European People's Party (EPP) leaders meet ahead of the European Summit in Meise from 13:00 to 17:00. They will be joined by the Croatian PM, Ivo Sanader, Albanian PM Sali Berisha and Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski June 21 | Brussels Press conference of the European Liberal Democrat Prime Ministers from 14:30 to 15:00 in palais d'Egmont, petit Sablon, 8. With Guy Verhofstadt, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Graham Watson and others. They will present their views of the future EU Treaty. June 21 | Sarajevo Music Festival organized by the French Institute in Bosnia and Herzegovina
June 21-22 | Brussels European Summit of heads of state and government under German presidency June 25 | Brussels Pritorities of the Portuguese presidency: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) from 13:15 to 14:30 June 25 | Brussels Committee for Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament reacts on the new EU Treaty June 26 | Brussels Chief Prosecutor of the International Court Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, Carla Del Ponte will address the Committee for Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament at 11:00. Followed by Serbian Foreign Minister, Vuk Jeremic
June 27 | Brussels Extraordinary plenary session of the European Parliament with German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who will report on the EU Summit and the German presidency. June 27 | Brussels Fighting corruption in the judiciary: "Are the tools available in the EU accession negitiations effective?" in cooperation with Transparency International. Speakers include members of Transparency International Serbian and Croatia. The meeting is organized by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) June 27-28 | Ljubljana Slovenia Business and Investment Summit. Click here for further details June 28-29 | Ohrid Second Euro Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) Security Forum with the participation of NATO and Partner countries ministers. The meeting will be chaired by Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer | 
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