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January 19 | Brussels

Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament: Exchange of views with Erwan Fouere, European Union Special Representative and Head of the European Commission’s Delegation to Macedonia; Motion for a resolution on 2008 Progress report on Macedonia (PHS 3C50, 15:00-18:00)

January 20 | Brussels

Foreign Relations Committee of the European Parliament: Discussion with Karel Schwarzeberg, Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic, on the priorities of the Czech Presidency (PHS 3C50, 15:00)

January 21 | Brussels

Foreign Relations Committee of the EP: Motion for a resolution on the 2008 progress report for Croatia, vote on the report by Hannes Swoboda, MEP; Motion for a resolution on Kosovo and the role of EU, report by Jost Lagendijk, MEP (PHS 3C50, 10:30-12:30)

January 21 | Brussels

EUHR Javier Solana meets Nebojsa Radmanovic, the Chair of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (10:00)

January 21 | Brussels

Hans-Gert Pottering, President of the European Parliament meets Nebojsa Radmanovic, Chairman of the Presidency of BiH (14:30) and Jadranka Kosor, Vice Prime Minister of Croatia (17:00)

January 21| Brussels

EU-Croatia: EU Commissioner for Androulla Vassiliou meets Jadranka Kosor, Vice Prime Minister of Croatia

January 22| Brussels

EU-BiH: Olli Rehn, EU Commissioner for Enlargement meets Nebojsa Radmanovic, Chair of the Bosnian Presidency, followed by a press point at VIP corner of the European Commission

January 26 | Brussels

General Affairs and External Relations Council meeting: EU Foreign Ministers will discuss EU Energy security in the light of the recent gas crisis, situation in the Middle East, bilateral relations with Russia and Ukraine and closure of Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

January 26 | Brussels

EU-Serbia: Meeting of the EU troika with Serbia (18.30), followed by a press conference

January 26 | Brussels

“Will Serbia Catch the EU Train?” – Policy Dialogue and film screening, organized by The European Policy Centre. Screening of the film Serbia – Exit Europe will be followed by a debate including Hedvig Morvai Horvath, Director of the European Fund for the Balkans, Milica Delevic, Head of Serbian European Integration Office, Dejan Anastasijevic, journalist, Gerald Knaus, president of ESI and Srdjan Cvijic and Rosa Balfour from EPC.

January 27 | Brussels

EU Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn meets Philippe De Buck, Secretary General of BUSINESS EUROPE, along with a delegation from Turkey, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria (15:00)

January 27 | Brussels

Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament: Discussion with Jan Kohout, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, on the results of EU Foreign Ministers meeting (GAERC) of 26-27 January 2009 (18:00-19:00, ASP 5G2)

January 27-28 | Zagreb

Meeting of the International Sava River Basin Commission, organized by the Regional Cooperation Council (http://www.rcc.int/index.php?action=events_archive )  

January 28 | Brussels

EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn receives representatives of the Hungarian Alliance of Vojvodina, Serbia (16:00)

January 29 | Brussels

EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn speaks at a breakfast debate “The outlook for EU Enlargement”, organised by the Centre for European Reform (http://www.cer.org.uk)