Friday 17 May

• EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): – Working Party on the United Kingdom. – Justice and Home Affairs Counsellors. – Financial Services Attachés.

Tuesday 21 May

• EU Council. ‘General Affairs’ Council (Brussels). - European Summit: preparation of the European Summit on 27-28/06 (Ukraine, security and defence, competitiveness, external relations, next institutional cycle). - Poland: developments concerning the ‘Article 7’ procedure with regard to Poland. - Rule of law: debate on the state of the Rule of law in Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania and Luxembourg. - Future of the EU: lunchtime debate on the future of the EU and the challenge of climate change. - United Kingdom: information from the Commission on the negotiations on Gibraltar between Spain and the United Kingdom and on the implementation of the Withdrawal, Trade and Cooperation Agreements with the United Kingdom.
• EU Council. Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council (Brussels). *Telecommunications: Digital: policy debate on the need for a collaborative approach to the coherent implementation of recently adopted legislation; approval of conclusions on the future of EU digital policy and the future of cybersecurity; discussion at the informal lunch on promoting digital skills to transform and open up the sector to as many people as possible; adoption without debate of Artificial intelligence Act (EU AI Act).
• EU Council. International Ministerial Meeting. 8th meeting of the EU-Moldova Association Council (Brussels). -Bilateral relations: discussion on bilateral relations and Moldova's EU accession process, political dialogue and reforms (justice, freedom and security). - Cooperation: exchanges on cooperation and convergence in the field of foreign and security policy, as well as economic and sectoral cooperation (energy, trade and trade-related issues). - Global and regional issues.
• EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): - Military Committee Working Group (EUMCWG). - Financial Services Officers. - Political and Security Committee (PSC). - Special Committee on Agriculture (SCA). - Headline Goal Task Force (HTF). - Antici Group. - Mertens Group. - Advisers/Attachés. - European Union Military Committee (EUMC). - Justice and Home Affairs Advisers.

Wednesday 22 May

• EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): - Coreper I. - Coreper II. - Financial Services Attachés. - Trade Policy Committee (Experts - services and investment). - Committee for Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management (Civcom).
• European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners (Brussels). - Discussion on the future of EU agriculture – with Prof. P. Strohschneider. - The European Health Union: a Europe that prepares, prevents and protects (Schinas).

Thursday 23 May

• EU Council. ‘Competitiveness’ Council (Brussels - and 24/05). *Space: - Space legislation: policy debate on the development of space legislation focusing on security, resilience and sustainability; adoption of conclusions on “Strengthening European competitiveness through space”. - Any other business: presentation of the work programme of the next Presidency (Hungary) in the field of space; speech by the ESA Director General on “Accelerating the use of space in Europe”. - Joint EU-ESA Space Council: joint meeting of EU ministers and ESA Member States on strengthening European competitiveness through space. *Research: - EuroHPC: political agreement on the regulation concerning the European Joint Undertaking on High-Performance Computing (EuroHPC) to extend its scope to artificial intelligence projects. - Security in research: adoption of a recommendation on strengthening security in research. - Knowledge exploitation: adoption of conclusions on knowledge exploitation. - Horizon 2020: conclusions on the ex-post evaluation of the Horizon 2020 framework programme. - Advanced materials: policy debate on research and innovation in advanced materials. - Miscellaneous: presentation of the work programme of the next Presidency (Hungary) in the field of research.
• EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): - Military Committee Working Group (EUMCWG). - Political and Security Committee. - Headline Goal Task Force (HTF). - Trade Policy Committee (alternate members).

Friday 24 May

• EU Council. ‘Competitiveness’ Council (Brussels). *Industry: - Future of industrial policy: adoption of conclusions on “A competitive European industry driving our green, digital and resilient industrial future”. - Any other business: - information on the Commission communication “Building the future with nature: Boosting Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing in the EU”; information by Ireland on the declaration of the D9+ ministerial meeting (informal alliance of digital pioneers) on 19/04; information by the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, France and Ireland on measures to use carbon in the chemical industry. - Working lunch: discussion on the competitiveness of energy-intensive industries. *Internal Market: - Future of the Internal Market: adoption of conclusions on the future of the Internal Market on the basis of the Letta report. - EU public procurement: approval of conclusions on the Court of Auditors’ special report on how to “Improve a fair and effective competition for EU public procurement contracts awarded for works, goods and services”- Any other business: state of play of legislative dossiers under discussion (toy safety, late payment, compulsory licences, reduction of administrative costs); information from the Netherlands and other delegations on territorial supply constraints in the Single Market; information from Spain on strengthening European industry; information from Germany, the Czech Republic and Lithuania on the declaration on the posting of workers; information from the Commission on the latest customs measures taken by the United States; information from the Presidency on European Competition Day; presentation of the work programme of the next Presidency (Hungary) in the field of the internal market and industry.
• EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels) : - Coreper II. - Working Party on the United Kingdom. - Justice and Home Affairs Advisers. - Committee for Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management (Civcom). - Headline Goal Task Force (HTF).