Committee meetings and political groups week – Brussels
Preparing for the plenary.
Committee meetings and political groups week – Brussels
Preparing for the plenary. Parliament’s political groups will devote most of the week to preparations for the plenary session of 23-26 November in Strasbourg. Likely highlights include the final votes on the telecoms package and energy efficiency labelling for tyres, plus a vote on compensating passengers of bankrupt airlines. MEPs will also debate plans for the Copenhagen Climate Change summit and the December EU summit.
EU summit. EP President Jerzy Buzek will join EU leaders for an informal European Council, which is expected to designate candidates for the top EU jobs created by the Lisbon Treaty (Thursday).
Stockholm Programme – Joint Parliamentary Meeting. President Buzek welcomes parliamentarians from across the EU to discuss EU policy on freedom, security and justice for the next five years (Monday-Tuesday).
Security/Defence. The commander of the EU’s naval operation to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia, Rear-Admiral Peter Hudson, will discuss the mission with the Security and Defence Subcommittee (Monday). The subcommittee also meets Sweden’s defence minister, Sten Tolgfors (Tuesday).
EP/Jordan. Nasser Judeh, foreign minister of Jordan, will meet the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Mashreq delegation (Monday).
President’s activities. President Buzek will meet 2006 Sakharov Prize winner and Belarus opposition leader Aliaksandr Milinkevich in Brussels, then travel to Slovakia for meetings with political leaders and officials (Tuesday-Wednesday).
Euro-Med in Cairo. Mr Buzek will be in Cairo for a meeting of the Bureau of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (Friday), after which he will also meet Egyptian political leaders and officials (Saturday).
Pre-session press briefing. Parliament’s press service and the political group spokespeople will comment on the plenary agenda at the regular pre-session press briefing at 11am on Friday (Anna Politkovskaya room PHS 0A050).