Leaders' Agenda
2017
9 - 20 October 2017
- Migration: consolidation of the external dimension, including financing
- Digital Europe: follow up to Tallinn Digital Summit
- Defence: PESCO state of play, European Defence Industrial Development Programme
- Leaders' Agenda
17 November 2017 - Gothenburg Social Summit
- Social Europe: Fair Jobs and Growth
- Education and Culture (30th anniversary of Erasmus)
14-15 December 2017
- Defence: launch PESCO and general overview of the various defence files
- Social issues, culture and education: follow up Gothenburg Social Summit
- Migration: way forward on the external and the internal dimension
- Euro Summit: EMU + Banking Union (agreement on timeline for decisions)
2018
23 February 2018 - Informal meeting (Brussels)
- Institutional issues: European Parliament composition/transnational lists, appointments, including Spitzenkandidaten
- MFF: debate on political priorities
22-23 March 2018
- Single Market strategies (ensuring progress towards reaching the 2018 deadline)
- Trade: trade defence, free trade agreements, screening of investments
- Climate and Energy (orientation for further work)
- Digital: issues requiring decision by the Leaders, such as e-commerce, copyright, taxation
- Research and Innovation: steps necessary to ensure global competitiveness
16-17 May 2018 - EU-Western Balkans Summit (Sofia)
- EU-Western Balkans Summit
- (poss.) Migration: overall agreement on internal and external policy
28 June 2018
- European Council Decision on the composition of the European Parliament
- Defence (orientation for further work)
- EMU (concrete decisions on reform)
- (poss.) Migration: overall agreement on internal and external policy
- Leaders' Agenda: state of play on implementation
19-20 September 2018 - Informal Meeting (Salzburg)
- Internal Security: checks at external borders, exchange of information, operational cooperation, security and criminal justice in cyberspace, preventing radicalisation (orientation for future work)
18 October 2018
- Internal security: follow up to the informal meeting
- Migration
- Trade: future trade policy, role of the EU in the multilateral trade system
13-14 December 2018
- MFF (progress report)
- Single Market (orientation for the future beyond the 2018 deadline)
2019
21-22 March 2019
- Economic issues and trade
- EMU (state of play and any further decisions)
9 May 2019 - Informal meeting (Sibiu)
- Implementation of the Leaders' agenda
- Preparation of the Strategic Agenda 2019-2024
20-21 June 2019
- MFF (progress report/discussion aiming for concluding negotiations later in 2019)
- Strategic Agenda 2019-2024
- High level appointments
Following consultations with all 28 EU leaders, Donald Tusk has set out a policy plan for the EU for the next two years.