|As filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission on January 8, 2004


FORM 6-K


SECURITIES AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSIONWashington, D.C. 20549


Report of Foreign
Private Issuer


For the month of December
2003Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 ofthe Securities Exchange Act of 1934


METRO INTERNATIONAL SA


(Translation of
registrants name into English)


75, Route de Longwy
LU-8080 Bertrange 
Luxembourg 
(Address of principal executive offices)


Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form
20-F or Form 40-F.


Form 20-F . . . X . . . . Form
40-F . . . . . . . .


Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form
is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b)
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.


Yes . . . . . . No . . .X. . . .


FINANCIAL CALENDAR


Metro International S.A.
(Metro), the international newspaper group, today announced the following
preliminary dates for the release of its quarterly results statements and the Annual
General Meeting in 2004:
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|Q4 2003 and Full Year Report        |  | 11 February 2004 | 
|----------------------------------- |  | ---------------- | 
|Q1 2004 Interim Report              |  | 21 April 2004    | 
|Q2 2004 Interim Report              |  | 4 August 2004    | 
|Q3 2004 Interim Report              |  | 20 October 2004  | 
|Annual General Meeting (Luxembourg) |  | 25 May 2004      | 

For further information, please visit
www.metro.lu, email info@metro.lu or contact:

Pelle Törnberg,
President & CEO
tel: +44 (0) 20 7016 1300 
Matthew Hooper, Investor
& Press Relations
tel: +44 (0) 20 7321 5010

|Metro is the worlds largest
newspaper, publishing and distributing 28 Metro editions in 16 countries in Europe, North
& South America and Asia. Metro attracts more than 12 million daily readers in over 50
cities around the world with an easy to read combination of headline local and
international news and information. Metro International S.A. A and
B shares are listed on the Stockholmsbörsen O-List and on the
Nasdaq stock market under the symbols MTROA and MTROB.


This press release contains certain
forward-looking statements with respect to our expectations and plans,
strategy, managements objectives, future performance, costs, revenues, earnings and
other trend information. It is important to note that our actual results in the future
could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements depending on
various important factors. Please refer to the documents we have filed with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission under the U.S. Securities


Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
including our most recent annual report on Form 20-F, for a discussion of certain of these
factors.


All forward-looking statements in this
press release are based on information available to us on the date hereof. All written or
oral forward-looking statements attributable to Metro International S.A, any Metro
International S.A. members or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in
their entirety by the factors referred to above. We do not intend to update these
forward-looking statements.
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|SIGNATURES


Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused
this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
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| | By: /s/ Anders Fullman
Name:  Anders Fullman
Title:    Vice President
             of Metro International SA
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Date: January 8, 2004