Monday 28 April

EU Presidency

• General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) (Luxembourg)
• EU - Croatia Stabilisation and Association Council (Luxembourg)
• EU - Egypt Association Council (Luxembourg)
• Eurostudent III Report (Ljubljana)
• Meeting of Representatives of EU Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Authorities (Brdo)

European Parliament

• An official delegation of the Temporary Committee on Climate Change is travelling to Washington DC to meet members of the US administration and Congress as well as NGO representatives.
• A delegation of fourteen MEPs is going to Afghanistan, where it will meet local government representatives and UN officials and visit projects that have received EU funding in two provinces
• MEPs visit Brazil, where they will meet their counterparts at the Brazilian parliament and the minister of agriculture.

European Commission

• Spring 2008 Economic Forecasts - Commission to publish spring economic forecasts for 2007-2009, on economic growth, inflation, employment and the general government debt and deficits.
• Long-term care - Commission will publish a background paper on how to take care of the approximately 20 million European citizens aged over 80 - Joint Report on Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2008

EU related events

• NSCA European Conference 2008 - Scientific Strength and Conditioning (Amsterdam)

Tuesday 29 April

European Parliament

• Eurolat: a European Parliament delegation will take part in the second plenary session of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly in Lima. MEPs and their Latin American counterparts will debate and vote on issues such as water and energy management, the Doha Agenda and poverty and social exclusion.
• EP President Hans-Gert Poettering and PES group chairman Martin Schulz will award the Charlemagne Prize for European Youth to three winners. This year's Charlemagne Prize will be awarded to German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

European Commission

• Monitoring dangerous chemicals in the EU - European Chemicals Bureau (ECB), at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, celebrates 15 years of monitoring dangerous chemicals, and hands over its experience to the newly created European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in Helsinki.

Wednesday 30 April

European Commission

• 2009 Preliminary Draft Budget - Commission to present its EU budget proposal for 2009, the first major step in the EU's annual budget procedure.

EU related events

• Improving European biopharmaceutical research - conference on the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Joint Undertaking.

Thursday 1 May

• Ascension Day - holiday

Friday 2 May