The Week Ahead 2-8 May 2011
Committee meetings and political groups week - Brussels
Systemic risk board/ECB report
The Economics Committee will hear from the two vice-chairs of the new European Systemic Risk Board: Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, and Andrea Enria, chair of the European Banking Authority. Later in the same meeting, ECB Vice-President Vítor Constâncio will present his institution's annual report to the committee.
Monday Ebs + LIVE. 15.00 - 16.30 CET and Ebs 3 - 17.30 CET
Monday Ebs + LIVE. 17.15 - 18.30 CET and Ebs 4 -19.10 CET
Schengen enlargement
The Civil Liberties Committee will vote on its position regarding the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the open-border Schengen area Monday Ebs 4 - 19.00 CET.
Press freedom in conflicts
The Subcommittee on Human Rights holds a hearing on press freedom during armed conflicts.Programme.
Monday Ebs 4 - 19.05 CET
EURONEST assembly
EP President Jerzy Buzek will welcome participants to the inaugural session of the new assembly bringing together MEPs with national MPs from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, which takes place in Parliament (Tuesday).
Tuesday Ebs + LIVE 09.00 - 12.30 CET followed by a press point LIVE 12.30 CET
Tuesday Ebs 2 - 14.30 CET
Open Days at the EP
Parliament opens its doors to the public in Brussels (Saturday Ebs 2 - 14.30 CET y) and Strasbourg (Sunday Ebs 2 - 14.30 CET) and participates in public events in Luxembourg city centre (Saturday) for the annual open days of the EU institutions.
Preparing for the plenary
Parliament's political groups will devote most of the week to preparations for the 9-12 May plenary session in Strasbourg. The agenda includes legislation on textile labelling, short selling and credit default swaps, as well as votes on setting up a joint EP-Commission "transparency register" for lobbyists and other interest groups and on proposals for possible changes to the system for electing MEPs. The decision on granting discharge for the EU's financial management in 2009 will also be debated and put to the vote, and there will be a major debate on EU foreign and security policy.
Pre-session press briefing
The session agenda will be reviewed by Parliament's press service and the political group spokespeople at the regular press briefing on Friday at 11am LIVE on Ebs+ (Anna Politkovskaya room PHS 0A050).
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