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- BELGRADE - Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban visits Serbia.
- DUBLIN - Spanish Economy Minister Nadia Calvino speaks in online event hosted by Dublin's Institute of International and European Affairs think tank. - 0830 GMT
- BRUSSELS - European Commissioner for justice Didier Reynders gives a press conference on the justice scoreboard in the EU. - 1100 GMT
- HELSINKI - Finland's foreign minister Pekka Haavisto and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu hold a joint news conference after talks in Helsinki on bilateral relations and ties between Ankara and the European Union. - 1200 GMT
- SOFIA - The managing director of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva to give a press conference on the sidelines of the Three Seas Initiative Summit in Sofia. - 1400 GMT
- NUR-SULTAN - President of the UN General Assembly Volkan Bozkir will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan as part of his trip to Central Asia. (To July 9)
- ATHENS - European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas will visit Athens for two days. (To July 9)
NICOSIA - President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen in Cyprus for two-day visit. (Final day) MOSCOW - Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar will visit Moscow, on a three day visit during which India and Russia are expected to discuss the situation in Afghanistan and the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. (To July 9)
VILNIUS - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba, as part of an official delegation led by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, will pay a working visit to the Republic of Lithuania to participate in the 4th International Ukraine Reform Conference. (To July 9)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Jordan's King Abdullah II left for the United States for a three-week visit. (To July 22)
TALLINN/VILNIUS/RIGA - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez travels to Baltic States Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia on an official visit to hold meetings with heads of state and government. (final day) ATHENS - The head of the European Stability Mechanism, the bloc's rescue fund, Klaus Regling and European Union's Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides are among speakers at an economic conference in Athens. - 0700 GMT KRANJ, Slovenia – EU Informal meeting of employment and social affairs ministers. (To July 9)
VENICE, Italy – OECD 2021 Annual Conference of the Global Forum on Productivity joint with Italian presidency of G20. (To July 9)
BERLIN - Statements from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum before talks – 1630 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JULY 9TEHRAN – 22nd anniversary of attack on Tehran University dormitory in 1999. RAMALLAH - Palestine marks the 16th anniversary of a World Court ruling that Israel's walls and fences in the West Bank were illegal. SOUTH SUDAN – 10th anniversary of South Sudan becoming an independent state.
VENICE, Italy - G20 Economy Ministers meet in Venice for a two-day summit, one of the main events of Italy's G20 presidency (To July 10)
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 11WARSAW - Lithuania's President Gitanas Nausėda to visit Poland. LJUBLJANA – Slovenia Referendum election.
SOFIA - Bulgaria to hold snap parliamentary election.
GLOBAL - United Nations World Population Day. MUMBAI - 14th anniversary of deadly bomb attacks on Mumbai's commuter rail network.
MOLDOVA - Moldovan Parliament Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 12
- BERLIN - German President Frank Walter Steinmeier receives Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Berlin - 0800 GMT BRUSSELS - Euro zone finance ministers meet on fiscal stance for 2022, corporate restructuring in post-COVID recovery – 1300 GMT.
BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.
BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
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- NEW YORK CITY, United States - German foreign minister Heiko Maas travels to the United States KYIV - Vice-President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic will visit Kyiv to participate in a high-level conference "Strategic Partnership between the European Union and Ukraine on Critical Raw Materials and Batteries".
BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 14BRUSSELS - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Commissioner for budget Johannes Hahn give a press conference on a proposal for an own resource’s decision.
BRUSSELS - European Commission vice-president Margrethe Vestager gives a press conference on an EU digital levy.
PARIS - Bastille Day.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 15WASHINGTON, D.C - U.S. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel confer at the White House.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 17GLOBAL - World Day for International Justice.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, JULY 18GLOBAL - Nelson Mandela International Day.
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- WASHINGTON D.C - U.S. President Joe Biden and King Abdullah of Jordan confer at the White House.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, JULY 20CYPRUS - Cyprus marks the anniversary of the Turkish invasion in 1974.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 21LISBON - Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa and government ministers hold State of the Nation's debate in Parliament with lawmakers KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida – 10th anniversary of conclusion of NASA's space shuttle program after the successful completion of mission STS-135.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, JULY 22KRANJ, Slovenia – EU Informal meeting of the European Affairs ministers. (To July 23)
OSLO – 10th anniversary of Norway bombing and mass shooting at youth summer camp on the nearby Utoya Island where 77 people were killed.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JULY 23BRUSSELS – EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Budget) meeting.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, JULY 26MANILA - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his final State of the Nation Address.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, JULY 28PARIS - OECD Economic Surveys: Portugal 2021
GLOBAL - World Hepatitis Day. GLOBAL – 107th anniversary of the beginning of World War 1. PERU - 200th anniversary of independence.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, JULY 30PARIS - OECD Economic Surveys: Hungary 2021
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, JULY 31PALESTINIAN - Palestinians hold presidential elections.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, AUGUST 1GLOBAL – World Breastfeeding Week (to Aug. 7).
WARSAW – Poland marks 77th anniversary of its war-time Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation.
CHINA – 94th founding anniversary of the People's Liberation Army.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, AUGUST 2BRUNEI - 54th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (to August 7). BRUNEI - 22nd APT Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (APT FMM) (to August 7). BRUNEI - 11th EAS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (EAS FMM) (to August 7). BRUNEI – ASEAN Senior Economic Officials’ Meeting (SEOM) (To Aug. 4).
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, AUGUST 3SINGAPORE - APEC Business Advisory Council (Virtual Meeting).
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, AUGUST 6EDINBURGH, Scotland - Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2021 (To Aug 30) HIROSHIMA - Hiroshima Commemorations 76th Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, AUGUST 9NAGASAKI, Japan - Nagasaki Commemorations 76th Anniversary of 1945 nuclear attacks.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, AUGUST 12GLOBAL - International Youth Day.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, AUGUST 14PAKISTAN – 74th Anniversary of Pakistan independence from British rule.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, AUGUST 15JAPAN – 76th Anniversary of country's surrender in World War Two. INDIA – 74th Anniversary of Indian Independence from British rule. LIECHTENSTEIN – 215th Anniversary of Independence.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, AUGUST 19GLOBAL - World Humanitarian Day. MOSCOW – 29th Anniversary of the failed Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev which accelerated the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, AUGUST 21SYRIA – 8th Anniversary of nerve gas attack which killed hundreds of people in rebel-held neighbourhoods on the edge of Damascus.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, AUGUST 23BALTIC WAY – 32nd anniversary of the Baltic Way, a human chain of people in 1989 stretching from Vilnius to Tallinn to mark solidarity in the struggle for independence from the Soviet Union.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, AUGUST 24POLAND - Poland marks the 32nd anniversary of the creation of the first post-Communist government in 1989. UKRAINE – 30th Anniversary of Independence. WASHINGTON – 209th Anniversary of the Burning of Washington, including the White House and the US Capitol building, by the British troops during the War of 1812.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25URUGUAY - Uruguay's Independence Day. PARIS – 77th Anniversary of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation in the Second World War.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1MEXICO - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador holds his third state of the union address. VENICE, Italy - 78th Venice International Film Festival (To Sept 11).
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- MOROCCO - Moroccan Chamber of Representatives Election.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
- KRANJ, Slovenia – EU Informal meeting of economic and financial affairs ministers. (To Sept 11)
- BRUSSELS – Eurogroup Meeting.
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- NORWAY - Norwegian Parliament Election.
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