1. European Central Bank President Mario Draghi will visit the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday to talk to lawmakers about economic and monetary developments. The discussion will likely focus on the ECB’s latest lending program – the Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations (TLTROs) – and the effects different inflation rates in euro-area countries have on monetary policy.
2. Also on Monday, outgoing European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, joined by several other commissioners, will travel to New York for the 69th session of the UN General Assembly, which will run until Friday. On Tuesday they will attend the UN Secretary General’s Climate Leaders’ Summit, in what will be the first time world leaders have met on climate since Copenhagen in 2009.
3. On Wednesday, the European Parliament’s trade committee will debate the economic consequences of Russia’s ban on farm-produce imports from the EU and the bloc’s economic restrictions against Russia.
4. Mr. Barroso and trade commissioner Karel De Gucht will attend the Canada-EU Summit on Friday. They are expected to announce the end of negotiations on a much-anticipated trade deal between the two sides, though there are still doubts in Germany and elsewhere about the accord.
5. The EU will hold another round of fresh talks with Russia and Ukraine on Friday. The talks will aim to settle their dispute on terms of Russian gas sales to Ukraine.