This year event vs This year´s event

Some examples from the web:

• Fortunately, this ambition remains unabated even after this year's events.
• And supporting the event this year.
• Uncle Jashar and Uncle Fejm are the favorites in this year's event.
• I decided to class up this year's event.
• "Looking back at this year's events, following the Jasmine revolution in Tunisia we witnessed the removal of a dictator and recently free elections," EP president Jerzy Buzek said during the awards ceremony.
• Tanner and Dan tell me that you chose Justin as the victim for this year's drunk driving event.
• Owing to this state of affairs no Commission funds could be made available this year for Europe Week events.
• Last year, 16 such events took place and, this year, another 10 events are planned.
• Naturally this did not prevent the emphasis being placed on a number of subjects dear to the rapporteurs, which terrorism allowed this year, following the events of September 2001.
• Can I still count on you for the Widows and Orphans event this year?
• In Portugal, the Portuguese Alliance of Associations Combating Rare Diseases marked the Day this year by holding an event in Porto, which I attended.
• The 20th World Water Week will take place in Stockholm from 5 to 11 September; World Water Week is a conference held annually in Sweden, and this year's event is to focus on the priority of guaranteeing the quality and purity of the world's water.
• So a few years after this event, I leave Ghana on a scholarship to go to Swarthmore College for my education.
• In fact, during the ceremony organised this year to commemorate the events in Poznan in 1956, the Hungarian President, Laszlo Sólyom, said that 'Poznan and Hungary rose up together against the Soviet occupation.
• The Commission is planning some NGO events this year concerning economic cooperation and freedom of the press, and we are cooperating closely in this field with the Black Sea Forum, an initiative of Romania.
• This year awareness-raising events and meetings have been organised with the Member States, with a view to improving implementation and compliance with the rules on the transfer of waste in the Member States.
• Each year, this event, which has been based since 2002 in Trani's Swabian castle, features three days of debates bringing together writers, philosophers, scientists, journalists and artists to discuss subjects of current interest.
• Why don't you join the event this year, my treat, and then we'll see who beats who?
• Statistically, the economic, risk-based requirements of Solvency II will reduce the risk of an insurer going bankrupt to a one in 200 year event.
• That was 2007, i.e. last year, which according to this decision, i.e. this resolution, will not be a one-year event but will continue.

Some examples from the web:

• Surely this year looks really bad.
• Cereal prices are good this year.
• Christmas has come early this year.
• This neighborhood has grieved over 27 murders this year.
• He personally greased 52 this year.
• Foreign direct investment is at record levels this year.
• The country is especially lovely this year.
• Vogue says it's this year's must.
• The Regulation became applicable on 5 March this year.
• Nice crop of tomatoes this year.
• Christian saw a ghost this year.
• This year's University Challenge team.
• The winter was long this year.
• Opposition did rather well this year.
• This year's recipient is Cadet Sergeant Damien Thorn.
• We could have a championship team This year.
• This year is also the tenth anniversary of OLAF.
• The action plan ended this year.
• This year Jenna Maroney's picking the president.
• And supporting the event this year.