The Energy Community was established to create an integrated energy market (electricity and gas) between the European Union and the Balkan States. In this context there will be a ministerial conference in Tirana (Albania) on 11 December.

Meeting on 9 December for the second time under the presidency of Dominique Bussereau, the French Minister of State for Transport, the EU transport ministers reaffirmed their commitment to the development of safe, sustainable transport with a major part devoted to the maritime sector.

The Transport, Telecommunications and Energy (TTE) Council is being held in Brussels on 8 and 9 December to examine, in particular, the energy-climate legislative package.

On Monday 8 December, Jean-Louis Borloo, the French Minister for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Regional Development, presided over the Energy Council, which brought together the 27 energy ministers of the European Union.

The French Presidency of Council of the European Union is organising a seminar on European energy security on 1 December 2008. This seminar is not open to the press.

The annual Energy Charter conference will take place in Athens on 28 November.

The ministers in charge of electronic communications in the twenty-seven Member States are due to meet on 27 November in Brussels.

Luc Chatel, the French Minister of State for Industry and Consumer Affairs, who presided over the Telecommunications Council in Brussels on Thursday 27 November, welcomed the political agreement reached on the Telecommunications Package. Eric Besson, the French Minister of State for Forward Planning, Assessment of Public Policies and Development of the Digital Economy, then presided over the next part of the Council on promoting the information society and the internet of the future.

On the agenda were the rexamination of the European regulatory framework for electronic communications, the regulation on international roaming, universal service and the internet of the future.

The informal meeting of European ministers for regional development and cohesion policy held in Marseilles concluded successfully with the unanimous adoption of a new stage of the territorial agenda.

An international conference for digital solidarity is being held in Lyons on 24 November, 2008.

Dominique Bussereau, the French Minister of State for Transport, concluded the aviation summit one 19 November, held within the framework of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

The European civil aviation summit organised in Bordeaux from 17-19 November will bring together high-level national and European aviation officials and private stakeholders in the sector with the objective of managing the environmental impact of air transport.

Since the attacks of 11 September 2001, unconventional, CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) terrorist threats have become an important cause for concern for states. Preventing and countering this form of terrorist threat is a priority for the European Union and its Member States.

The European Rail Forum "Freight without Borders" is being held on 29 October 2008 in Paris. Shippers, railway companies, infrastructure operators, regulatory authorities and public authorities will examine the new horizons for rail freight and debate the priorities for future European action.

The 59th international session of the European Youth Parliament brings together hundreds of young people from all over Europe to discuss important European issues.

This day is part of the European action plan that aims to halve the number of fatalities on the roads in 2010 compared with 2001.

Jean-Louis Borloo, the French Minister of State for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Regional Development, presided over today's EU Energy Council in Luxembourg.

The European ministers responsible for transport, meeting in Luxembourg on 9 October under the presidency of Dominique Bussereau, the French Minister of State for Transport, decided jointly to take a decisive step towards the safe and sustainable development of transport.

This year, the Convention of the Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) is the opportunity to celebrate the centenary of the French Aerospace Industry.

The EU-Russia Permanent Partnership Council on Energy will take place in Paris on 8 October 2008. This working meeting is not open to the press.

The European Ministers for the Digital Economy have been invited by Eric Besson, the French Minister of State for the Development of the Digital Economy, to take part in the first European ministerial meeting on the issues surrounding the Internet of the Future in Nice on 6 October 2008.

Material capacities, the EU's military operations and the link between the Europe of Defence and the citizens are the main subjects on the agenda for the discussions of 1 and 2 October in Deauville.

Luc Chatel assures the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)
of the full support of the Council of the European Union

The first conference of European surveyors, organised in partnership with the two European professional bodies for surveyors, the Council of European Geodetic Surveyors and Geometer Europas, will be held from 17 to 19 September 2008 at the Palais des Congrès in Strasbourg.

The GMES programme (Global Monitoring of Environment and Security), a joint initiative of the EU and the European Space Agency (ESA), is designed to provide Europe with a major information system on environment and security using data collected by spatial and terrestrial infrastructures.

The Bureau of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) is meeting in Dunkirk on 15 and 16 September, at the initiative of the French delegation to the CoR.

On the morning of Wednesday 10 September, the physicists at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) started up the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the biggest machine ever made.

The French Presidency is organising an "i2010" conference in line with the EU strategy to boost the digital economy and information society in Europe.