European Parliament
-28/29 February: Agriculture and Rural Development Committee
-28 February/1 March: Foreign Affairs Committee
-29 February: Development Committee
-29 February/1 March: International Trade Committee European Council
European Council
-1/2 March: European Council Meeting
Council of Ministers
-27 February: Foreign Affairs Council
-28 February: General Affairs Council
-29 February: COREPER I
ACP Group
-28 February: Information session on Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference
-29 February: Working Group on the Future perspectives of the ACP Group
-1 March: MDFIP Department.S/C on Trade and Commodity Protocols
-2 March: 3rd meeting on ACP-EU Dialogue on Migration
Research events
-29 February/01 March: Conference on animal welfare
-28 February: Conference: Ensuring a Comprehensive EU Approach to Crises
-28 February: Seminar on food security
You can also read our newspaper “CTA Brussels Daily” (fed by our Twitter account), follow our new Facebook group CTABrussels and our Twitter account CTABrussels to receive up-to-date information on EU-ACP events.
Council of Ministers
-23/24 February: Agriculture and Fisheries Council
-21/22 February: Coreper II
-21 February: Coreper I
Research events
-20/21 February: Thematic workshop on climate finance in light of meaningful emission reductions and increased transparency (Denmark)
22 February: Next Brussels Development Briefing: New challenges and opportunities for pastoralism in ACP countries
You can also read our newspaper “CTA Brussels Daily” (fed by our Twitter account), follow our new Facebook group CTABrussels and our Twitter account CTABrussels to receive up-to-date information on EU-ACP events.
As we have been informing our readers in recent weeks, our next Brussels Development Briefing will take place on the 22 February 2012 and will be organised in partnership with the African Union Commission, the European Commission (DG DEVCO) the ACP Secretariat, Concord and various media partners.
Pastoralism will be at the core of our next Brussels Briefing. We will discuss the main challenges affecting the pastoralists, especially in the ACP countries, and the opportunities provided by existing continental and regional policy frameworks and processes. It will then focus on sharing good practices and experiences from the field across regions. We will also identify what urgent and concrete policy actions need to be in place to increase support pastoralism.
The Briefing will be fully webstreamed in English and French (from 8h30 a.m. to13.00 p.m. CET)
Brussels has recently witnessed the launch of the European Commission's new Scientific Advisory Board for EU development policy. The Board, which is expected to provide cutting edge research, is made up of eight international academics with expertise in development issues. These experts will meet twice a year to discuss key topics of development policy.
According to VibeGhana, the EU Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Claude Maerten, recently assured that despite the current economic crisis in Europe, the EU would always stand by Ghana in its development endeavour.
European Parliament
-13/16 February: Plenary session of the European Parliament
Council of Ministers
-13 February: Strategic Committee on Inmigration, Frontiers and Asylum (SCIFA)
-15/16 February: Coreper II
-15 February: Coreper I
ACP Group
-14/16 February: 1st Meeting of Experts in charge of ACP-EU Dialogue on Migration
Research events
-International Seminar on the Future of Development Cooperation in 2020 (Brussels)
You can also read our newspaper “CTA Brussels Daily” (fed by our Twitter account), follow our new Facebook group CTABrussels and our Twitter account CTABrussels to receive up-to-date information on EU-ACP events.
Pastoralism will be at the core of our next Brussels Briefing. We will discuss the main challenges affecting the pastoralists, especially in the ACP countries, and the opportunities provided by existing continental and regional policy frameworks and processes. It will then focus on sharing good practices and experiences from the field across regions. We will also identify what urgent and concrete policy actions need to be in place to increase support pastoralism.
The Briefing will be fully webstreamed in English and French. To see the programme (revised) to register for the Briefing and to follow the webstream on22 February (from 8h30 a.m. to13.00 p.m. CET) please visit brusselsbriefings.
In the course of the Jubilee Conference of the National Committee for International Co-operation and Sustainable Development of the Netherlands (NCDO), Pascal Lamy, WTO Director-General, congratulated the Netherlands on “its commitment to development assistance and supporting the use of trade as a tool for growth and poverty reduction”. Notably, he said: “My visit here confirms what I experienced in a previous life with the European Commission that your country has much to share with the global community through international trade.”
European Parliament
-6 and 8 February: Committee on Foreign Affairs.
-6 February: Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
-9 February: Committee on development
Council of Ministers
-7/8 February: Coreper II
-7/8 February: Coreper I
European Commission
- 7 February: Conference on Energy Roadmap 2050
ACP Group
-9 February: Committee of ACP ambassadors
Special date
-7 February: 20th anniversary of the signing of the Maastricht Treaty
You can also read our newspaper “CTA Brussels Daily” (fed by our Twitter account), follow our new Facebook group CTABrussels and our Twitter account CTABrussels to receive up-to-date information on EU-ACP events.






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