The Week Ahead 8-14 November 2010
Plenary session and commitee meetings - Brussels
Plenary session (Wednesday and Thursday)
Hedge funds
MEPs will take their final vote on the deal that they have hammered out with EU Member States over the past year. The new laws on hedge funds and private equity will impose registration, reporting and initial capital requirements (debate Wednesday, vote Thursday).
Wednesday, EbS+LIVE 15.00-20.00 СЕТ and EbS S 20.00 CET
Thursday, EbS 2 14.30 CET
EbS will also cover the press conference by rapporteur Jean-Paul GAUZÈS (EPP, FR).Thursday, EbS+ LIVE 13:00 CET
Energy
MEPs will also vote on an agreement with the Council to free up €146 million of uncommitted funds to finance energy saving, energy efficiency and renewable energy projects (debate and vote Thursday).
Thursday, EbS+LIVE 09.00-11.50 СЕТ
EU-US summit
Ahead of the EU-US summit, MEPs will debate and fix Parliament's transatlantic priorities and examine relations with the US regarding bilateral trade, the fight against terrorism, climate change and data protection, including passenger name records (debate Wednesday, vote Thursday).
Wednesday, EbS+LIVE 15.00-20.00 СЕТ and EbS 3 17.30 CET
Committee meetings (Monday and Tuesday)
EU budget 2011
Conciliation negotiations for an agreement between Parliament and the Member States on the EU budget for 2011 continue during the week (Thursday).
Thursday, EbS 2 14.40 CET
Citizens' initiative
Constitutional Affairs Committee MEPs will discuss draft rules that would enable EU citizens to call directly upon the European Commission to propose legislation, provided that they can gather signatures from at least a million supporters (Tuesday).
Tuesday, EbS 2 14.30 CET
Economic governance/Jean-Claude Juncker
Economic Affairs Committee MEPs will discuss economic governance with Eurogroup President Jean-Claude Juncker as well as the decisions taken at the October European Council (Monday).
Monday, EbS+LIVE 15.00-18.30 СЕТ
Monday, EbS 4 19.00 CET
Enlargement
The Foreign Affairs Committee will discuss with Commissioner Stefan Füle the Commission's 2010 enlargement package, containing its strategy paper, the opinions on the applications by Montenegro and Albania and seven progress reports on the other (potential) candidate countries (Tuesday).
Afghanistan
The Foreign Affairs Committee will outline its priorities for a new EU strategy for Afghanistan (Tuesday).
Tuesday, EbS 2 14.35 CET
EP President
Jerzy Buzek pays an official visit to Luxembourg, including meetings with Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg and Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker (Tuesday). The President will also meet with Norwegian Storting President Dag Terje Andersen in Brussels (Wednesday).
Tuesday, EbS 4 19.00 CET
Development
Catherine Ashton, EU Foreign Affairs High Representative and Commission Vice-President will hold a discussion on development-related aspects of the European External Action Service on Monday with the members of the Committee on Development.
Monday EbS4 19:10 CET
Mastering the financial crisis: What should the EU do next?
The EP and the Belgian Parliament organise a JPM entitled "Beyond the crisis: How should Europe respond to the challenges ahead?". It will take place in the European Parliament in Brussels on 8 and 9 November 2010.
Monday, EbS 3 17.30 CET
Tuesday, EbS 2 14.30 CET
Tuesday, EbS LIVE 10:00 - 10:30 CET statements by José Manuel Barroso and Yves Leterme
Net Neutrality Summit
Net Neutrality was extensively discussed during the revision of the Framework for Electronic Communications in 2009. A joint European Parliament-Commission event will be held on Thursday to provide additional input to an upcoming Commission communication.
Thursday, EbS 3 17.30 CET
EP - South Sudan
The Committee on Foreign Affairs will hold an exchange of views with Pagan AMUM, Minister for Peace and CPA implementation of the Government of Southern Sudan on Tuesday at 11:30
Tuesday, EbS 14:00 CET Memoclip Sudan
Tuesday, EbS2 14:45 CET extacts of the meeting
Passenger Name Record
The vote on EU external strategy on Passenger Name Record (PNR) will take place next Thursday from 12:00
Thursday EbS2 14:35 CET
Ethiopia
EbS will cover the press conference of Press Conference by Thijs Berman (S&D, NL), Head of the observation mission on the conclusions and the recommendations of the EOM for the observation of the elections in Ethiopia.
Monday EbS+ 14:30 CET
