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May 2 | Paris

Breakfast Debate - Bosnia-Herzegovina, between Dayton and Europe. Organised by IFRI/CFA (In English). With Valentin Inzko, High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 8:30-10:00.

May 5 | Brussels

Policy Dialogue - Dealing with the past: justice and reconciliation in the Western Balkans. Communities and societies across the Western Balkans still need to face up to the unresolved legacies of the wars. To that end, a major pan-regional initiative – the Coalition for RECOM – seeking to establish a truth-telling commission has been gaining ground and international support over the past years. Panel includes Natasha Kandic, Founder and Executive Director of the Belgrade Humanitarian Law Centre and Pierre Mirel, Director for Western Balkans, DG Enlargement, European Commission. From 14:00 to 16:00.

May 6 | Brussels

Conference - Speak Up! Conference on Freedom of Expression and Media in the Western Balkans and Turkey. The European Commission's latest annual strategy on EU enlargement, adopted in November, highlighted in particular freedom of expression and media as one of the most important remaining challenges facing enlargement countries. In the past few months, freedom of expression has become all the more topical, with several new incidents reported. Opening and closing addresses by Michael Leigh, Director General for Enlargement. Speakers include Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament, Štefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy and Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.

May 6 | London

Workshop - Environmental Governance in South Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans: The Transformative Power of Europe? Public. This workshop aims to bring together scholars and practitioners, both within Western Europe and the region, working on aspects of environmental governance and regulation in candidate and potential candidate states within the region (Albania, Montenegro, FYR of Macedonia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Serbia and Croatia).

May 7-8 | Tirana

European Parliament Delegation to observe local elections in Albania.

May 09 | Florence

European Parliament President Buzek will meet Croatian President Ivo Josipovic while the two leaders are in Florence for a conference on the occasion of Europe Day.

May 09 | Tirana

Conference Albania and Europe in an political regard. The conference seeks to explore ways of perceptions regarding the relationships of Albania and Europe in different periods.

Commissioner Stefan FULE receives Mimoza KUSARI LILA, Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo.

May 12 | Zagreb

Meeting of RCC Board. The regular quarterly meeting of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Board will hear a report by RCC Secretary General Hido Biscevic on the activities of the organization’s Secretariat for the period 8 March-10 May 2011, information on the planned future activities of the RCC Secretariat and overview by the organisation’s senior experts on current status of implementation of the RCC Strategy and Work Programme 2011-2013.

May 12 | Strasburg

European Parliament Plenary Session: Joint Debate - Education and Culture in the EU. Sarajevo as a European Capital of Culture in 2014 - Oral question to the Commission.

May 13 | Zagreb

Council of Europe, Committee on Culture, Science and Education will discuss higher education policy, and the right of all to take part in cultural life.

May 13 | Brussels

Information sur la situation de Jovan Divjak et les actions a poursuivre pour sa liberation totale et immediate et La situation en Bosnie-Herzegovine, et l’evolution des relations avec l’Union europeenne. Avec Osman TOPCAGIC, ambassadeur et chef de la mission de Bosnie-Herzegovine aupres de l’Union europeenne et Jelko KACIN, depute europeen, vice-president de la delegation Balkans occidentaux. Au bureau de Bruxelles de Confrontations Europe, 10h00 a 12h30.

May 16-17 | Belgrade

Conference: Climate Friendly Transport in Serbia, Shaping Climate friendly Transport in Europe: Key Finding & Future Directions”, organised by the REACT project, an EC funded project supporting research on climate-friendly transport, and the University of Belgrade. The conference focuses on future research priorities, Policy interventions and Evaluating policies and measures in climate friendly transport.

May 16-17 | Dubrovnik

EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee: A delegation led by Gunnar HÖKMARK (EPP, SE), will take part in the 13th EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting. MEPs will analyse the EU prospects for Croatia with Ministers Drazen BOSNJAKOVIC (Justice), Duro POPIJAC (Economy) and Bozidar PANKRETIC (Regional Development).

May 19-20 | Belgrade-Pristina-Tirana

European Commission President José Manuel Durão BARROSO and Štefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy on visit to the Western Balkans: Belgrade (19/05), Pristina and Tirana (20/5).

May 19-20 | Pristina

EP-Kosovo Interparliamentary Meeting: A delegation led by Eduard KUKAN (EPP, SK), will join the 4th-EP-Kosovo inter-parliamentary meeting where they will analyse Kosovo's progress towards EU accession with different national authorities, including the Prime Minister Hashim THACI.

May 20 | Vienna

Conference: Changing Identities in South Eastern Europe, Co-organised by the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office Ljubljana in cooperation with the Centre for Social Innovation in Vienna. The conference will present projects in research cooperation and networking between research institutions in Austria, Slovenia and the Western Balkan countries.

May 23 | Brussels

Committee of Regions: Adriatic Ionian Council, XIII Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs. Ministers of Foreign Affairs will hold talks with the European Commission and adopt the " Brussels Declaration" on the development of an EU strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian "macroregion". They will also consider progress in the EU integration of the Western Balkans countries. Foreign ministers of the presidency "troika" of the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative will hold a press conference: Milan Roćen, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro, Vuk Jeremić, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Alfredo Mantica, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Italy + Maria Damanaki, EU Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. (12:15-13:00)

May 25 | Paris

La Serbie et la France, une alliance atypique: rencontre avec l’ambassadeur de Serbie Dušan T. Bataković, organisé par l'Association des Journalistes Européens. At the foreign press center (CAPE), 11:00.

May 25-26 | Sarajevo

Regional conference: What kind of social agenda for the Western Balkans? The conference, organized by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat with support of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), will bring around the table relevant policy makers, social and international partners in discussing and identifying key challenges, opportunities and policy options for the social agenda in the Western Balkans.

May 26-27 | Belgrade-Pristina

EU High representative Catherine ASHTON travels to Serbia and Kosovo.

May 27 | Podgorica

European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Štefan FÜLE participates in the conference of the Montenegro National Council for European Integration.

May 27-28 | Podgorica

RRPP Annual Conference: Social, Political and Economic Change in the Western Balkans. The main objectives of the conference are to provide opportunities for younger researchers dealing with the region to meet, network, exchange and discuss their research projects, results and ideas and to discuss the challenges, contradictions and ambivalences of the transformation process, with which the social sciences are confronted in the Balkans.

May 30 | Brussels

Commissioner Cecilia MAMSTRÖM receives Ivica DACIC, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister of Serbia.

Conference: On the Eve of Accession Croatia and EU’s Future Enlargement, organised by Hanns Seidel Stiftung, Brussels office. With Andrej Plenkovic, State Secretary for European Integration, Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration; Markus Ferber, MEP; Gunnar Hokmark, MEP.