The Foreign Affairs Council will gather in Brussels on Monday to discuss the Eastern Partnership, Libya North Korea.
The Agriculture and Fisheries Council will meet in Brussels on Monday when the Council will be given an update on the Austrian presidency’s work program and exchange views on the post-2020 common agricultural policy (CAP) reform in the form of a communication on the future of food and farming.
An EU and Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) ministerial meeting will take place in Brussels where the ministers of foreign affairs from the EU and from CELAC will meet on Monday and Tuesday. The theme of the meeting is Building Bridges And Strengthening Our Partnership To Face Global Challenges, after which both EU and CELAC ministers are expected to adopt a declaration.
The General Affairs Council will gather in Brussels on Friday. EU27 ministers will take stock of the state of play of Brexit negotiations. The Commission's Chief Negotiator, Michel Barnier, will update the Council, which is meeting in an EU 27 format, on progress made with the U.K. regarding Brexit. The ministers will discuss the state of play focusing on completion of work on the withdrawal, issues related to the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, and discussions on the framework for the future relationship with the U.K.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk will visit Beijing, China on Monday to participate in the EU-China Summit. EU and Chinese leaders will discuss bilateral trade and investment relations and are expected to express their joint support for rules-based trade. They are also expected to confirm their mutual engagement for the modernization of the World Trade Organization.
An EU-Japan Summit will take place in Tokyo on Tuesday. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Council President Donald Tusk and Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe will participate in the event. Abe canceled his trip to Brussels due to torrential rains in western Japan last week. The EU and Japanese leaders are expected to reaffirm their commitment to the rules-based international order and to free trade. On this occasion at the summit, leaders will sign the EU-Japan economic partnership agreement and the EU-Japan strategic partnership agreement. The free trade agreement will remove most of the duties that EU companies pay annually to export to Japan as well as several regulatory barriers. The strategic partnership agreement will take the EU's long-standing partnership with Japan to a new level with deeper and more strategic cooperation.
The European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee delegation will visit Washington between Monday and Thursday to discuss data protection, and immigration with representatives from the U.S. government, Congress different stakeholders. Topics to be discussed include the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, visa reciprocity, and the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, which provides companies on both sides of the Atlantic with a mechanism to comply with data protection requirements when transferring personal data from the European Union and Switzerland to the U.S. in support of transatlantic commerce.
The Foreign Affairs Committee is sending a delegation to Tunisia and Algeria this week to strengthen EU-Tunisia and EU-Algeria partnership, and to discuss foreign policy issues, regional security stability.
A delegation from the Financial Crimes, Tax Evasion and Tax Avoidance Committee (TAX3) will go to Washington to meet representatives from the Treasury Department, Congress and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, among others. The delegation will discuss transatlantic cooperation in the fight against financial crimes and tax evasion, as well as how to improve transparency on tax, and beneficial ownership at international and OECD level.
An Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee delegation will also travel to Washington and New York to discuss recent developments in the field of financial market regulations and taxation, the impact of U.S. tax reform on financial institutions and regulatory challenges for EU banks in the U.S. They will meet, among others, representatives from the Treasury Department (with TAX3), the Institute of International Bankers and the Federal Reserve Board.