Fighting racism ahead of EURO 2008
6-10 April, Europa-Park (Germany) - The Council of Europe and Europa-Park are co-organising a ''fan camp'' on preventing racism among football fans. Part of the ''All Different-All Equal'' youth campaign, the seminar will gather youth representatives from 30 European countries at the theme park in Rust, Germany. (Press release; contact Jaime.Rodriguez@coe.int, tel +33 (0)3 90 21 47 04)

2008 René Cassin European Human Rights Competition
7-8 April, Strasbourg - Students representing universities in six countries will compete against each other on the topic of new technologies in secondary schools during the 22nd René Cassin Competition, to be held at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. (Press Release; Press service of the ECHR, contact Emma.Hellyer@echr.coe.int, tel + 33 (0)3 90 21 42 15)

2008 exchange of views on the religious dimension of intercultural dialogue
8 April, Strasbourg – The first ''Council of Europe exchange on the religious dimension of intercultural dialogue'' will bring together around a hundred participants from across Europe to discuss ''Teaching religious and convictional facts – A tool for acquiring knowledge about religions and beliefs in education; a contribution to education for democratic citizenship, human rights and intercultural dialogue.'' (Press release; contact Henriette.Girard@coe.int or Ulvi.Akhundlu@coe.int, tel +33 3 88 41 25 60)

Thomas Hammarberg to visit Slovakia
8-10 April, Bratislava - The Commissioner for Human Rights will discuss the human rights situation in Slovakia with authorities and NGOs during a during a three-day contact visit starting on Tuesday 8 April . Discussions will focus mainly on the rights of minorities, refugees and asylum seekers. (Press release; Commissioner's website; contact Stefano.Montanari@coe.int, tel +33 (0)6 73 83 29 53)

PACE pre-election visit to Serbia
8-10 April, Belgrade - A PACE delegation will make a pre-election visit to Serbia ahead of the parliamentary elections of 11 May. In Belgrade, the delegation will meet members of political parties not represented in parliament, the Supreme Court President, the Secretary of the Electoral Commission and representatives of civil society and the media. Talks with representatives of the political parties standing for election will be held during the subsequent PACE observation mission from 8 to 12 May. A press conference will take place at 4pm on 10 April at the Belgrade Media Centre (Milentija Popovica, 9 - Sava Center) (PACE website; contact PACE Communication Unit, tel +33 (0)3 88 41 31 93)

Conference on education and training of Roma children and youth
8-9 April, Bratislava – Measures taken by Council of Europe member states to improve the education of Roma children in Europe will be the focus of an event organised as part of the Slovak Chairmanship of the Council of Europe. Participants, including Commissioner Hammarberg, will discuss ways of eliminating educational differences that exist between Roma and non-Roma populations. (Event website; contact Can.Fisek@coe.int, tel +33 (0)3 88 41 30 41)

Launch of a new TV database
9 April, Cannes (France) – The Council of Europe's Audiovisual Observatory and the European Commission will launch a new TV database - set up to provide basic data on all television channels accessible in the European Union and the two candidate countries, Croatia and Turkey – on Wednesday. (Press release; contact Alison.Hindhaugh@coe.int, tel +33 (0)3 88 14 44 00)

And also…

07/04 – PACE delegation to present its preliminary conclusions on the observation of the presidential elections in Montenegro at a press conference at 11.00am at the Podgorica Hotel. (PACE website; contact PACE Communication Unit, tel +33 (0)3 88 41 31 93)

07/04, Brussels – Congress President Halvdan Skard will address participants at the conference on "European cities integrating migrants" which will look at good practice in various cities and discuss the development of guidelines to help cities cope more effectively with the challenge of integrating migrants. (Congress website; contact Congress Communication Unit, tel +33 (0)3 90 21 49 36)

07/04, Brussels – Dick Marty, Chair of the PACE Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism, will participate in a working session on the revision of the framework decision of the European Council on combating terrorism. (PACE website; contact PACE Communication Unit, tel +33 (0)3 88 41 31 93)

07/04 - Members of the Institutional Committee of the Congress will discuss the situation of regional democracy in Greece and in Turkey as well as fact-finding missions to Latvia in April and Belgium in May 2008. (Congress website; contact Congress Communication Unit, tel +33 (0)3 90 21 49 36)

08/04, Strasbourg – European Court of Human Rights to deliver 25 judgments concerning Malta, Moldova, Poland, Slovenia, Turkey and the United Kingdom. (Press service of the ECHR, contact Emma.Hellyer@echr.coe.int, tel + 33 (0)3 90 21 42 15)

9-10/04, Kazan (Russian Federation) - Seminar on "Universities and their contribution to regional cultural development” (Congress website; contact Dmitri.Marchenkov@coe.int, tél +33 (0)3 88 41 38 44)

10/04, Moscow - Conference "10th Anniversary of the ratification of the European Charter on local self-government by the Russian Federation "
(Congress website; contact Dmitri.Marchenkov@coe.int, tél +33 (0)3 88 41 38 44)

10/04, Strasbourg – European Court of Human Rights to deliver 15 judgments concerning Austria, Bulgaria, France, Greece, “the Former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia”, Russia, Switzerland and Ukraine. (Press service of the ECHR, contact Emma.Hellyer@echr.coe.int, tel + 33 (0)3 90 21 42 15)

11/04, Strasbourg – S econd meeting of the European Co-ordination Forum for the Council of Europe Disability Action Plan 2006-2015 (Contact pressunit@coe.int, tel +33 3 88 41 25 60)