EUROPEAN COMMISSION.

Main activities for the period May 5 to 13:

* Weekly meeting: Tuesday May 10 in Strasbourg. Items on the agenda:

- Action plan on "freedom, security and justice in the EU";

- Proposal to suspend regional fund payments to certain parts of programmes in Greece.

* Trips and visits

- Friday May 6:

Mrs Wallstrom to attend the Conference of Presidents of EU National Assemblies (6-7, Budapest); Mr Frattini to attend the first national conference on asylum (Rome); Mr Potocnik to attend the European Forum for Early Career Researchers (Slovenia); Mrs Ferrero-Waldner in Kyoto for the EU-Japan ministerial meeting (6) and the ASEM ministerial meeting (6-7)

- Sunday May 8:

Mrs Fischer Boel to attend the informal meeting of EU Agriculture Ministers (8-10, Echternach, Luxembourg); Mrs Wallstrom in the Czech Republic (8-9)

- Monday May 9:

Mr Barroso to attend ceremonies in Moscow marking the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War; Mr Piebalgs in Riga; Mrs Ferrero-Waldner to attend the meeting of the Middle East Peace Process Quartet (Moscow); Mr Almunia in Madrid; Mr Rehn in Finland; Mr Figel to attend celebration marking the anniversary of the declaration by Robert Schuman (Vienna)

- Tuesday May 10:

Mr Barroso, Mrs Ferrero-Waldner and Mr Mandelson to attend the EU/Russia Summit (Moscow); Mrs Reding to meet Alain Levy, Chairman of EMI (Strasbourg); Mrs Hubner to meet the 35 City Mayors of the Club de Strasbourg

- Wednesday May 11:

Mr Barroso to receive Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai; Mr Frattini to receive Gijs de Vries, the EU's anti-terrorist coordinator; Official visit by Mrs Kroes to Bucharest (11-12); Mrs Ferrero-Waldner to attend the EU-China ministerial meeting (11-12, Peking); Mr Rehn to attend the South-East Europe Cooperation Process SEECP) Summit (Bucharest); Mr Spidla top attend the session on 'Europe's future, sixty years after the Second World War (EP...