European Commission - Weekly activities Calendrier du 18 novembre au 24 novembre 2019 Brussels, 15 November 2019 (Susceptible de modifications en cours de semaine) Déplacements et visites Lundi 18 novembre 2019 Agriculture and Fisheries Council Mr Frans Timmermans meets Mr George Soros, Chair of the Open Society Foundations. Mr Frans Timmermans receives Ms Carola Schouten, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands. Mr Frans Timmermans receives Mr Markus Beyrer, Director General of Business Europe. Mr Frans Timmermans reçoit Mme Élisabeth Borne, Ministre de la Transition écologique et solidaire de la France. Mr Frans Timmermans meets the Netherlands' Council of State (Raad van State). Mr Maroš Šefčovič in Bratislava, Slovakia: participates and delivers a keynote speech at the Central European Energy Conference. Mr Valdis Dombrovskis hosts a working lunch with Mr Antti Rinne, Prime Minister of Finland. Mr Valdis Dombrovskis receives Mr Guillaume Prache, Managing Director of Better Finance. Mr Vytenis Andriukaitis in Stockholm, Sweden: participates in the European Antibiotic Awareness Day. Mr Phil Hogan receives Ms Carola Schouten, Minister for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands; and delivers an address on ‘A new decade: prospects, problems and priorities for the next European Commission' at the Institute of International and European Affairs, in Brussels. Ms Violeta Bulc receives Mr Ionnais Plakiotakis, Minister for Shipping and Island Policy of Greece. Ms Violeta Bulc receives Mr Benny Engelbrecht, Minister for Transport of Denmark. Ms Violeta Bulc meets with the Transport Committee of the Danish Parliament, in Brussels. Ms Vĕra Jourová in Skopje, North Macedonia: attends the EU-Western Balkan Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial meeting; and meets Mr Nikola Dimitrov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia, meets Mrs Renata Deskoska, Minister for Justice of North Macedonia and Mrs Etilda Gjonaj, Minister for Justice of Albania. Ms Margrethe Vestager receives members of the Association of Commercial Television Ms Margrethe Vestager receives Mr Elisabeth Borne, Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition of France. Mr Julian King in Rome, Italy: visits the Italian Passenger Name Record Centre; and meets with Mr Franco Gabrielli, Chief of Police and Director General of Public Security. Ms Mariya Gabriel, in Vienna: delivers a main statement at the opening of the 16th Vienna Economic Forum – Vienna Future Dialogue 2019; and meets Dr. Johann Strobl, CEO of Raiffeisen Bank International AG. Mardi 19 novembre 2019 General Affairs Council Mr Frans Timmermans delivers a speech at the Vaclav Havel European Dialogues ‘Europe 1989- 2019: How to sustain the path towards Europe Whole and Free?'. Mr Jyrki Katainen in Zagreb, Croatia (until 21/11): delivers a keynote address on ‘The future of transatlantic defence cooperation' at the 9th Transatlantic Think Tank Conference of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies; attends the meeting of the Presidency of the European People's Party; addresses the EPP Group Young Members' Network as well as the Board of the YEPP, the youth organisation of the European People's Party. Mr Neven Mimica in Kigali, Rwanda: participates in the 38th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. Mr Vytenis Andriukaitis receives Mr Goran Buldioski, Director of the Open Society Foundations' Berlin office and a Co-director of the Open Society Initiative for Europe. Mr Vytenis Andriukaitis receives representatives of The Brewers of Europe. Mr Dimitris Avramopoulos in Skopje, North Macedonia: participates in the EU-Western Balkans ministerial forum on Justice and Home Affairs; and meets with Mr Zoran Zaev, Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Mr Nikola Dimitrov Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Mr Oliver Spasovski, Minister for the Interior of North Macedonia. M. Pierre Moscovici reçoit M. Joaquín Almunia, évaluateur indépendant de haut niveau du Conseil des Gouverneurs du Mécanisme Européen de Stabilité (MES). Mr Phil Hogan receives Transition Year students with Mr Seán Kelly, Member of the European Parliament; delivers an address on global governance at the Friends of Europe EU-China Forum; and receives Board Members of the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland, in Brussels. Ms Vĕra Jourová in Skopje, North Macedonia: meets Mr Zoran Zaev, Prime Minister of North Macedonia. Ms Vĕra Jourová receives Ms Andreja Metelko-Zgombić, State Secretary for European Affairs of Croatia. Ms Margrethe Vestager receives Mr Gene Kimmelman, Senior adviser at Public Knowledge. Ms Margrethe Vestager participates in the ‘Bruegel event: Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence', in Brussels Mr Carlos Moedas receives Mr Paul Dujardin, CEO of Bozar. Ms Mariya Gabriel: speaks at the event ‘Challenges for beekeeping in the EU - long term solutions' in the European Parliament; delivers opening remarks at the conference ‘United Tech of Europe - Fostering European digital champions' organised by France Digitale; meets with Mr Frédéric Mazzella, Founder of Blablacar and Co-President of France Digitale; and speaks at the screening of the Finnish feature film Aurora organised by the association of European Film Agencies (EFAD) and the Finnish Film Foundation in partnership with the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, in Brussels. Ms Mariya Gabriel receives Prof. Tommaso Calarco, Director of the Institute for Quantum Control of the Peter Grünberg Institute at Forschungszentrum Jülich. Ms Mariya Gabriel receives Mr Stoyan Gotzev, Legal Adviser at Cambridge Assessment. Ms Mariya Gabriel receives Mr Antoine Petit, President and Director-General of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Ms Mariya Gabriel receives Ms Desislava Taneva, Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry of Bulgaria. Ms Mariya Gabriel receives Ms Martina Larkin, Head of Europe and Eurasia and Member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum. Mercredi 20 novembre 2019 College Meeting Ms Federica Mogherini receives the finalists of the EU-funded Kenyan TV contest ‘Ms. President'. Mr Maroš Šefčovič speaks at the BATTERY 2030+ conference, in Brussels. Mr Maroš Šefčovič receives Mr Karl-Heinz Lambertz, President of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR). Mr Valdis Dombrovskis receives Mr Edgars Rinkēvičs, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Latvia. Mr Jyrki Katainen in Zagreb, Croatia (until 21/11): delivers an opening keynote speech at the ‘Smart Cities – Cities of the Future Conference organised by the European Commission'; meets Mr Andrej Plenkovic, Prime Minister of Croatia, and Mr Adrian Delia, Leader of the PN party of Malta; attends the EPP Group Study Days; participates in a working lunch of the Honorary Board of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies. Ms Cecilia Malmström participates in a panel discussion at the event ‘The Weather Outside the Bubble: Presentation of the Eurobarometer on EU Trade' hosted by the Centre for European Policy Studies, in Brussels. Mr Neven Mimica in Kigali, Rwanda: participates in the 38th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. Mr Miguel Arias Cañete receives Mr José Ignacio Sánchez Galán, CEO of Iberdrola. Mr Christos Stylianides in Doha, Qatar (until 21/11): participates in the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE),organised by the Qatar Foundation. Ms Violeta Bulc in New Delhi, India (until 21/11): meets with Mr Piyush Goyal, Minister for Railways and Commerce of India; and meets with Mr Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister for Civil Aviation of India. Ms Elżbieta Bieńkowska in Zagreb, Croatia: meets Mr Darko Horvat, Minister for Economy of Croatia. Ms Vĕra Jourová speaks at the High Level Conference organised on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in Brussels. Ms Vĕra Jourová receives Mr Iljae Kim, Acting Chairperson of the Personal Information Protection Commission of South Korea. Ms Margrethe Vestager receives Board Members of the European Publishers Council. Ms Margrethe Vestager receives Mr Paul-Bernhard Kallen, CEO of Hubert Burda Media. Ms Mariya Gabriel, in Zagreb: participates in a panel debate ‘Catching up in the Global AI Race' at the Marathon of Ideas organised by the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies. Jeudi 21 novembre 2019 Education, Youth, Culture and Sports Council Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) Mr Frans Timmermans delivers a speech at the ‘Stakeholder Forum 2019 - Racing towards a clean hydrogen economy'. Mr Frans Timmermans receives Ms Svenja Schulze, Federal Minister for the Environment of Germany. Mr Frans Timmermans receives Ms Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation. Mr Frans Timmermans receives representatives of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Mr Frans Timmermans receives Mr Bertrand Piccard, President of the Solar Impulse Foundation. Mr Maroš Šefčovič in Bratislava, Slovakia: delivers a keynote speech at the conference ‘FutureNow' on electro-mobility. Mr Maroš Šefčovič receives representatives of the Slovak business on the occasion of the 30th anniversary celebration of the Velvet Revolution. Mr Jyrki Katainen in Zagreb, Croatia: meets Mr Ludovic Orbán, Prime Minister of Romania. Mr Miguel Arias Cañete in Madrid, Spain: receives Mr Rafael Villaseca, President of the Naturgy Foundation. Mr Dimitris Avramopoulos in Athens, Greece: participates in a Citizens' Dialogue on Internal & External Security Challenges in Europe. M. Pierre Moscovici à Paris, France :participe à l'ouverture