May May 2 | Brussels Mr Gordon Brown and Mr Paul Wolfowitz visit Brussels: VIP Corner with Development Commissioner, Louis Michel at 13:00 in the European Commission May 2 | Brussels Justice Commissioner, Franco Frattini in the European Parliament at the Commission for justcie affairs May 3 | Brussels The European Policy Centre (EPC) organizes a dialogue on "Teaching History: the path towards reconciliation in the Balkans" from 10:00 to 12:30 with Nenad Sebek (CDRSEE) and Jean-Pierre Dubois Montfort from the french Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Head of franco-german relations department May 4 | Brussels Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn meets the President of the European Investment Bank, Mr Philippe Maystadt. No details on press opportunity May 4 | Brussels "Friends of Europe" debate: "Political cartoons: where should we draw the line?" at 12:30 (Bibliothèque Solvay) with cartoonists Jeff Danzinger (USA), Plantu (France), Kroll (Belgium), Lars-Ole Nejstgaard (Denmark) May 6 | France Second and final round of the Presidential elections May 9-10 | Brussels Mini plenary session of the European Parliament May 14-15 | Brussels General Affairs and External Relations Council of the EU (GAERC) May 15 | Skopje Exchange of views with Parliamentary Assembly Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe and authorities of the Republic of Macedonia May 16 | Aachen Participation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe President with the President of the European Parliament, H-G Pöttering and Croatian President Stjepan Mesic May 17 |
International day against hompohobia May 17-18 | London Ministerial meeting of the Bologna processMay 18 | Samara (Russia)
EU-Russian Federation Summit May 19-24 | Zadar NATO is conducting a distaster response exercise called "Idassa 2007" on the Croatian coast. 21 Euro Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) nations are participating May 22 | Strasbourg The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso will visit the Council of Europe and meet with secretary general of CoE, Terry Davis May 22 | Brussels The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) will analyse the French presidential elections at a meeting: "Where will France be heading?". Registration required.
May 23 | Belgrade Meeting between the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) President, Rene van der Linden and Serbian leaders, including President Boris Tadic, PM Vojislav Kostunica and Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic to discuss the Serbian chairmanship of the Council of Europe, co-operation with ICTY and Kosovo issue
May 23 | Belgrade Parliamentary round table on "The role of parliament in promoting gender equality and combating domestic violence".
May 23 | Brussels First official visit of the new French president, Nicolas Sarkozy to Brussels. He will meet with Belgian PM, Guy Verhofstadt and European Commission's President, Jose Manuel Barroso. No details on Mr Sarkozy's schedule so far.
May 24 | Strasbourg European Parliament's (EP) joint committee on Foreign Affairs and the delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Committee Cooperation: from 08:30 to 10:00
May 24 | Brussels European Policy Centre: Sixty minutes Policy briefing on "Russian foreign policy today" with Dmitri Trenin, Senior Associate and Deputy Direcotr of the Carnegie Moscow Centre
May 25 | Sofia Participation by a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe delegation to a parliamentary conference on developing the energy community in South East Europe. Programme here May 25-26 | Sarajevo General Assembly of Local democracy agencies with the participation of members of the Council of Europe May 29 | Brussels The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) hosts a meeting with the Polish permanent representative to the EU, Jan Tombinski, who will outline his government's agenda concenring the June Summit of the EU: "A Polish view ahead of the June Summit" May 30 | Brussels Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the USA House of Representatives meets the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso. VIP Corner planned for the press May 30 | Brussels Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission at a technical meeting with Macedonian representatives May 31 | Brussels European Policy Centre: Policy dialogue on "Ethnic profiling and ethical approaches to security and counter-terrorism" from 14;30 to 16.30 at the EPC May 31 | Strasbourg European Court of Human Rights: notifications on Croatia and Macedonia at 11:00 May 31-June 1 | St Petersburg Meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Sub-Committee on External Relations to discuss the situation in Kosovo |