dpa WEEKLY PLANNER for JUNE 10-16, 2024

MONDAY, JUNE 10

BRUSSELS: European Parliament election results come in from 27 member states, deciding who will sit in the 720-seat parliament, and kicking off the process of choosing the next European Commission president, among other top EU posts

ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE, FRANCE: French President Emmanuel Macron and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier commemorate the victims of the SS massacre of 1944

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA: Apple developers conference WWDC

BERLIN: German Development Minister Svenja Schulze speaks at a Social Democratic economic forum on the theme of Ukraine reconstruction

VARIOUS DATELINES: International friendlies/Euro 2024 tune-up games, including Czech Republic v North Macedonia, Netherlands v Iceland and Poland v Turkey

STUTTGART: ATP grass court tournament, until June 16

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TUESDAY, JUNE 11

BERLIN: Ukraine Recovery Conference, this year hosted by Germany and attended by Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who will also deliver an address to parliament (until June 12)

AMMAN: Jordan, Egypt and the UN host a summit to try and improve the critical humanitarian situation for Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip

COPENHAGEN: Norway set to approve plan to drastically increase its defence budget over the next 12 years

BERLIN: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets Chilean counterpart Gabriel Boric Font

VARIOUS DATELINES: International friendlies/Euro 2024 tune-up games, including Moldova v Ukraine and Portugal v Ireland

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12

BERLIN: German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius presents new plans for military service conscription

BRUSSELS: European Commission presents a performance report for the EU budget; the commission will also reveal a strategy to activate the bloc's new EU migration pact

WASHINGTON: US Federal Reserve makes interest rate decision

BERLIN: Nationwide day of action against anti-Semitism at German schools on Anne Frank's 95th birthday with opening speech by Justice Minister Marco Buschmann

LONDON: Televised TV debate between UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and opposition leader Keir Starmer, ahead of July 4 elections

LONDON: Two men due in court for illegal felling of the so-called "Robin Hood tree" in northern England

ROME: One year since death of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi

WIESBADEN, GERMANY: German Federal Statistical Office publishes inflation data for May

BEIJING: Official inflation figures released

ORLANDO, FLORIDA: International friendly United States v Brazil

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND: International Olympic Committee executive board meetings (until June 14)

ROME: Final day of European athletics championships

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THURSDAY, JUNE 13

MONOPOLI, ITALY: First day of G7 summit in the luxury Borgo Egnazia hotel in southern Italy; leaders of Italy, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the US and UK will attend along with other invited leaders such as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (until June 15)

GENEVA: UN refugee agency presents new figures for global refugees

BONN, GERMANY: Final day of preparatory UN climate conference ahead of the COP29 in Baku

BERLIN: Creative Bureaucracy Festival 2024, focussing on innovations in administration

COTTBUS, GERMANY: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier travels to the state of Brandenburg with the diplomatic corps

WASHINGTON: Tesla stockholders scheduled to vote on huge pay package for Elon Musk at the company's annual general meeting

WASHINGTON: International friendly Guatemala v Argentina

PINEHURST, NORTH CAROLINA: US Open golf tournament, until June 16

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FRIDAY, JUNE 14

MONOPOLI, ITALY: Second day of the G7 summit in the luxury Borgo Egnazia hotel in southern Italy

MAINZ, GERMANY: Second meeting of the Synodal Committee of the Catholic Church (until June 15)

WASHINGTON: US former president Donald Trump turns 78

MUNICH: Euro 2024 opening match Germany v Scotland

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SATURDAY, JUNE 15

BÜRGENSTOCK, GERMANY: International Ukraine peace conference in Switzerland, organized at the request of Kiev; the gathering will discuss a peace plan presented by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the United Nations in autumn 2022; Russia is not attending the gathering (until June 16)

MONOPOLI, ITALY: Last day of the G7 summit in the luxury Borgo Egnazia hotel in southern Italy

BRATISLAVA: Slovakia's Zuzana Čaputová formally hands over the presidency to social democrat Peter Pellegrini

COLOGNE/BERLIN/DORTMUND: Euro 2024 group matches Hungary v Switzerland, Spain v Croatia, Italy v Albania

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SUNDAY, JUNE 16

STUTTGART/GELSENKIRCHEN/HAMBURG: Euro 2024 group matches Slovenia v Denmark, Serbia v England, Poland v Netherlands

VILLARS-SUR-OLLON, SWITZERLAND: Final stage of Tour de Suisse cycling race

PINEHURST, NORTH CAROLINA: US Open golf tournament, final round