EUROPEAN COMMISSION.

Main activities of the week of April 21:

* Weekly meeting:

- Integrated guidelines for growth and employment (2005-208), including a Recommendation on the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines and a proposal for a Decision on employment policy in the member states;

- Three Communications on the topic "To accelerate progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals": the contribution of the EU, financing of the development and effectiveness of assistance, the coherence of the policies for the development.

- Decision on the Czech Republic's national greenhouse gas emission quota allocation plan;

- Decision on the amendment suggested at the national level to the United Kingdom's greenhouse gas emission quota allocation plan;

- Communication on the 10th anniversary of the Barcelona Process;

- Debate on the revision of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) within the framework of the WTO negotiations.

Activities of the Commissioners:

Monday April 11:

Mr Borg meets the Prime Minister for the Faroe Islands Joaness Eidesgaard; Mrs Fischer Boel meets the French Minister for Agriculture Dominique Bussereau, and Overseas affairs Brigitte Girardin; Mr Borg meets the French Secretary of State of Transport Francois Goulard; Mr Borg and Mrs Fischer Boel meet the Turkish Minister for Agriculture and the rural businesses Sami Guclu; Mr Borg meets the Flanders minister-president Yves Leterme; Mrs Wallstrom meets Anne-Marie Sigmund, president of the Economic and Social Committee; Mrs Hubner meets Philippe Maystadt, president of the EIB; Mrs Ferrero-Waldner meets Nino Burjanadze, president of the Georgian Parliament, and Yotara Kobayashi, president de Fuji; Mrs Kroes meets Pieter Kalbfleisch, general manager of the authorities of the competition of the Netherlands; Mr McCreevy meets Pierre Mirabaud, president of the Swiss Association of the Bankers, and Michael O'Leary, chairman of Ryanair; Verheugen and Dimas meet with the high level group BUS 21 (Competitive Automotive Regulatory System for the 21st Century); Mr Potocnik in Tokyo (10-13); Mr Michel takes part in the meeting ministerial Troika EU-Africa (Luxembourg); Mr Spidla takes part in the Seminar 'The social model: which stake for the European Constitution' (Paris); Mr Figel' in Barcelona, handing-over of the European Prize "Miles van der Rohe" the contemporary architecture.

- Tuesday 12:

Mr Barrot speaks at the general assembly of the ' social Weeks of France' (Paris).

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