Today: WTO meets on US sanctions against EU. UN Security Council meets. German EU presidency meets EU applicant countries. New Berlin Reichstag opens.
Tomorrow: EU economic Affairs Commissioner gives evidence to EP monetary committee. Bundestag culture committee debates Holocaust memorial. IMF and World Bank meet in Washington.
Thursday: UN hosts talks over East Timor. Governing Council of ECB meets in Frankfurt. Earth Day marked.
Friday: Fiftieth anniversary NATO summit in Washington.
Saturday: Korea talks in Geneva. Finance Ministers and heads of G7 national banks meet in Washington.
Sunday: Referendum on creation of assembly to rewrite constitution in Venezuela. Sudanese government and rebel SPLA meet in Nairobi.
Ireland
Today: Launch of Europe-Infos, a new Catholic monthly.
Tomorrow: Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Fund ceremony at 1.30 p.m. at Dublin Castle. (For other events phone 01.6793713)
Friday: Peace and Neutrality Alliance conference on Irish Neutrality and European Security at the Ussher Lecture Theatre, TCD. Speakers include Gerry Adams, Tony Coughlan, Alan Dukes, Proinsias De Rossa. (Phone: 01.2806878)
Irish events of a world news interest for this column should be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, on the Friday before publication.