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This is a list of meetings of the European Council (informally referred to as EU summits); the meetings of the European Council, an institution of the European Union (EU) comprising heads of state or government of EU member states. They started in 1975 as tri-annual meetings.
The meetings of the European Council, still commonly referred to as EU summits, are chaired by its president and take place at least twice every six months; [1] usually in the Europa building in Brussels. [4] [5] Decisions of the European Council are taken by consensus, except where the Treaties provide otherwise. [6]
Hungary hosted the autumn summit of the European Political Community during its Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The date of the summit was announced by Charles Michel on 20 March 2024. An informal meeting of the European Council took place the following day. [5]
The Third European Political Community Summit was a meeting of the European Political Community held on 5 October 2023 at the Granada Conference Centre in Granada, Spain. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Aims
The summit was attended by heads of state or government of the states participating in the European Political Community, alongside the President of the European Council and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The British government stated that "around 50" leaders would attend the UK EPC event. [33]
The First European Political Community Summit was the inaugural meeting of the European Political Community held on 6 October 2022 in Prague, Czech Republic. It was attended by the heads of state or government of forty-four European countries. [1] Russia and Belarus were not invited.
The European Council deals with the major issues such as the appointment of the President of the European Commission who takes part in the body's meetings. [58] Ecofin's Eurozone component, the Euro group, is also a formal group with its own President. [51] Its European Council counterpart is the Euro summit formalized in 2011 [59] and the TSCG.
A Council working party or working party is a preparatory body of the Council of the European Union. The more than 150 working parties are tasked with the first examination of legislative proposals by the European Commission and play a role during the trilogue meetings at the end of the legislative procedure of the European Union .