Agenda
European Commission College meeting with Hungarian Presidency (Budapest)
Meeting with Comité de Sages to receive report on the digitisation of cultural material - Press meeting at 11:00 (VIP Corner- BERL)
Meets Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, MEP
Delivers keynote speech at the official opening ceremony of the EU-China Youth Year 2011
Signing ceremony of the Joint Declaration on Youth with All-China Youth Federation President, Wang Xiao
At the EP Budgetary Control Committee – hearing on the 2009 Court of Auditors report
Ceremony to welcome Turku, Finland, as European Capital of Culture 2011
Meets Stefan Wallin (Finnish Culture and Sports Minister), Cay Sevón (Chief Executive Officer of Turku 2011) and Aleksi Randell (Mayor of Turku)
Visits "AboaVetus & Ars Nova", Turku's museum of history and contemporary art
Ceremony to welcome Turku, Finland, as European Capital of Culture 2011
Reception at the Logomo Exhibition Centre, Turku
Opening show on board the frigate "The Swan of Finland" at Turku's Forum Marinum maritime museum
Press conference with Aleksi Randell (Mayor of Turku), Stefan Wallin (Finnish Culture and Sports Minister) and Cay Sevón (CEO of Turku 2011 Foundation)
Gives a press conference on "Communication on Sports", Strasbourg – Press room LOW N-1/201
Commissioners' seminar
Commissioners' seminar
11:00 - receives Chantal JOUANNO, French Minister for Sports
16:30 – receives Alexis GALANOS, Mayor of Ammochostos, Cyprus
15:00 – receives Yannis VARDAKASTANIS, President of European Disability Forum
16:00 – receives Myriam DIOCARETZ, Secretary General of the European Writers' Council
12:30 – at the European Parliament's Intergroup for Youth and Education: debate on Youth on the Move
10:30 – meets Jacques ROGGE, President of the International Olympic Committee (Geneva)
15:00 – visits the Jean Monnet Foundation (Geneva)
08:30 – meets Michel PLATINI, President of UEFA and the UEFA Executive Committee (Geneva)
9:00 – gives speech at first European Youth Day organised by Committee of the Regions
14:00 – gives speech at fifth Cohesion Forum and chairs panel on how to align EU cohesion policy with Europe 2020
11:00 – receives Frederic Mitterrand, French Minister of Culture
12:30 – Press conference on early school leavers
