dpa WEEKLY PLANNER for JULY 1-7, 2024

MONDAY, JULY 1

PARIS: Fallout from first round of election to France's National Assembly, with parties likely to forge local alliances ahead of the second round next Sunday

BUDAPEST/BRUSSELS: Hungary officially takes over the running of the EU presidency

DOHA: Second and final day of United Nations Conference on Afghanistan

WARSAW: German-Polish intergovernmental consultations

WASHINGTON: Expected arrest of Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon

PANAMA: Panama's new President José Raúl Mulino sworn in

MUNICH: Munich Administrative Court delivers verdict in Alternative for Germany's (AfD) lawsuit to halt observation by the Bavarian domestic intelligence service

BERLIN: Event to mark the first anniversary of the National Security Strategy, with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock

LUXEMBOURG: European court of Auditors reports on the recognition of national qualifications across the EU

SINTRA, PORTUGAL: Central Bank Conference of the European Central Bank (until Wednesday)

FRANKFURT: Initial June inflation figures for Germany released

FRANKFURT: German mechanical engineering association VDMA publishes incoming orders May 2024

FRANKFURT: German central bank Deutsche Bundesbank releases study on payment behaviour in Germany in 2023

FRANKFURT: "Frankfurt Euro Finance Summit" banking conference

FRANKFURT: German Farmers' Association holds press conference at the start of the 2024 harvest

LONDON: Three people stand trial in the UK for blocking an asylum seeker transport

ISTANBUL: Trial relating to murder of leader of Turkish far-right Grey Wolves movement

BERLIN: Berlin Fashion Week begins (until Thursday)

BERLIN: Start of Berlin 6G Conference, an international event focusing on 6G research (until Thursday)

COLOGNE: Unveiling of the coffin of Ramses II for the exhibition "Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs"

MUNICH: Munich Film Festival continues (until Sunday)

KUFSTEIN, AUSTRIA: Block clearance planned for lorries at the border crossing between Bavaria in Germany and the Austrian province of Tyrol to limit the number to only around 300 lorries per hour

BERLIN: Symposium organized by the German Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management "Nuclear power plants as monuments: places of remembrance and repositories of knowledge"

FRANKFURT/DUSSELDORF: Two Euro 2024 last-16 matches

LONDON: Start of the Wimbledon Championships (until July 14)

VARIOUS DATELINES: Tour de France continues (until July 21)

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TUESDAY, JULY 2

THE HAGUE: New Dutch government sworn in

EDINBURGH: King Charles III, Queen Camilla and other members of the royal family visit Scotland (until Friday)

LUXEMBOURG: European statistics authority Eurostat publishes flash estimate of eurozone inflation in June 2024

STUTTGART: Works Council and trade unions call for rallies over the sale of Mercedes Group-owned car dealerships, with the main ones in Stuttgart, Bremen, Dusseldorf and Berlin

FRANKFURT: Press event for the international bicycle trade fair Eurobike

FRANKFURT: Bosch eBike Systems holds press conference on innovations

FRANKFURT: ZVEI German battery association holds press conference on the state of the battery industry in Germany

STUTTGART: Start of trade congress and industry get-together for the automotive sector (until Wednesday)

NUREMBERG, GERMANY: Diehl Group presents figures

HAMBURG: Energy company Lichtblick holds annual press conference

LONDON: British supermarket chain Sainsbury present first quarter figures

LONDON: British supermarket chain Marks and Spencer holds annual general meeting

COLCHESTER, ENGLAND: Woman on trial for attacking right-wing populist politician Nigel Farage

COLOGNE: Start of civil proceedings by an abuse victim demanding €830,000 ($887,276) in compensation from the Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne

MUNICH: Annual reception of the Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising in southern Germany

BERLIN: Humboldt speech on Europe "Restoring the Rule of Law in Poland" by Polish Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar

KIEL, GERMANY: German Rural Women's Day, with President Steinmeier

CALW, GERMANY: Hermann Hesse Prize 2024 presented to Ukrainian writer Sofia Andrukhovych

LONDON: Auction of Titian's 16th century "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" with an estimated value of up to €29 million planned at Christie's

COLOGNE: Opening of "SOUNDTRACK_COLOGNE 21" specialist congress focusing on music and sound in film, games and media

MUNICH/LEIPZIG: Two Euro 2024 last-16 matches

FRANKFURT: Fourth round of nominations for the German Olympic team

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 3

FRANKFURT: Third round of collective bargaining for around 135,000 employees of private banks in Germany

FRANKFURT: German business magazine Handelsblatt holds conference "The future of retail banking"

LINZ, AUSTRIA: Voestalpine holds annual general meeting

NEUTRAUBLING, GERMANY: Krones holds capital markets day

DRESDEN, GERMANY: ifo Institute Dresden holds summer 2024 press conference on economic prospects and economic development in Eastern Germany and Saxony

NEWRY, NORTHERN IRELAND: Northern Irish politician Jeffrey Donaldson on trial for alleged sexual offences

BERLIN: Annual press conference for the German Nuclear Waste Management Financing Fund (KENFO)

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THURSDAY, JULY 4

LONDON: British general election

CARACAS: Start of campaign for July 28 presidential election in Venezuela

BRUSSELS/BERLIN: Deadline for EU review of Lufthansa's acquisition of Italian flag carrier ITA Airways expires

SHENZEN, CHINA: World Conference on Carbon (until July 19)

POTSDAM, GERMANY: Opening of a synagogue and Jewish community centre, with dignitaries including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Central Council of Jews in Germany President Josef Schuster

BRAUNSCHWEIG, GERMANY: Joint annual general meeting 2024 of German sugar producers Nordzucker AG and Nordzucker Holding AG

LEOBEN, AUSTRIA: Tech firm AT&S holds annual general meeting

BERLIN: Conference of the German Insurance Association (GDV) on the topic of insurance regulation

SAARBRÜCKEN, GERMANY: German energy firm VSE AG holds annual press conference

LONDON: British supermarket chain Sainsbury holds annual general meeting

FRANKFURT: Press conference on German book market in 2023-24

BERLIN: Presentation of the German Podcast Award 2024

BREISACH, GERMANY: Start of Pinot and Rock Festival in south-western Germany (until Sunday)

BERLIN: Opening of the exhibition "Not alone - Women in Resistance" at Willy-Brandt-Haus (from Friday until September 8)

FRANKFURT: German Football League (DFL) to publish the calendar for 2024-25 Bundesliga season

HOUSTON, TEXAS: Copa America quarter-final (at 0100 GMT Friday)

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FRIDAY, JULY 5

WASHINGTON: US government publishes unemployment rate data for June 2024

ASSLAR, GERMANY: Pfeiffer Vacuum holds annual general meeting

BORNHEIM, GERMANY: German retailer Hornbach holds annual general meeting

PARIS: Blades of the landmark Moulin Rouge windmill to be replaced after falling off earlier in the year

BERLIN: Presentation of the International Literature Prize 2024

HANOVER, GERMANY: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band's World Tour 2024 comes to northern Germany

MONTREUX, SWITZERLAND: 58th Montreux Jazz Festival (until July 20)

MUNICH: Presentation of the New German Cinema Award at the Munich Film Festival

ULM/NEU-ULM, GERMANY: 13th International Danube Festival with international artists and guests from the countries along the Danube (until July 14)

WEIMAR, GERMANY: Panel discussion on the 250th anniversary of the publication of Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther"

BAD RAPPENAU, GERMANY: Opening of new special exhibition at the BikiniARTmuseum in south-western Germany on the hit 1990s US TV series "Baywatch"

STUTTGART/HAMBURG: Two Euro 2024 quarter-finals matches

ARLINGTON, TEXAS: Copa America quarter-final (at 0100 GMT Saturday)

FRANKFURT: Final round of nominations for the German Olympic team

SILVERSTONE: First and second practice for the British Formula One Grand Prix

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SATURDAY, JULY 6

PARIS: Second round of French snap parliamentary election begins in overseas territories

WEIMAR, GERMANY: Citizens' dialogue with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and leading Social Democratic Party (SPD) candidate Georg Maier for September's election for the regional parliament in the state of Thuringia

HOUSTON, TEXAS: One-year NASA Mars simulation project with four volunteers comes to an end

LÜBECK, GERMANY: Opening concert of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival 2024

BRIGHTON AND HOVE, ENGLAND: "March of the Mermaids" costume parade on the south coast of England

VARIOUS DATELINES: International Kissing Day

DUSSELDORF/BERLIN: Two Euro 2024 quarter-finals matches

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA/GLENDALE, ARIZONA: Two Copa America quarter-finals (second match at 0100 GMT Sunday)

SILVERSTONE, ENGLAND: Third practice and qualifying for the British Formula One Grand Prix

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SUNDAY, JULY 7

PARIS: Second round of snap parliamentary election in mainland France

THE HAGUE: Dutch royal family faces the press for photos and questions

TRIESTE, ITALY: Pope Francis takes part in meeting of the Italian Catholic Church

BERLIN: German public broadcasters air summer interviews with the co-chairs of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla

BERLIN: Book launch for "Nobody can say they didn't know. The outrageous plans of the AfD" by a reporter for the Correctiv investigative journalism collective, Marcus Bensmann

SILVERSTONE: British Formula One Grand Prix