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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.
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