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member states gain a privileged access to information: at the end of their term, they know member states' preferences better than anyone else; the Council programme may enable member states to focus Council discussion on issues of particular national/regional interest (for example Finland and the Northern Dimension initiative) The burdens include:
The European Union (EU) is a sui generis supranational union of states. At a European Council Summit held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 June and 22 June 1993, [2] the European Union defined the Copenhagen criteria regarding the conditions a candidate country has to fulfill to be considered eligible for accession to the European Union:
This is a list of presidents of the institutions of the European Union (EU). Each of the institutions is headed by a president or a presidency, with some being more prominent than others. Both the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission are sometimes wrongly termed the President of the European Union. Most ...
1 July – The start of the 2024 Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. 10 July – the German Alternative for Germany (AfD) forms a new European group called Europe of Sovereign Nations. It will have Hungary's Our Homeland Movement, Bulgaria's Revival, Czech Freedom and Direct Democracy, Slovak Republic Movement.
BELGRADE (Reuters) -The European Union must be ready to admit new member states by 2030, European Council President Charles Michel told a forum in the Slovenian lake resort of Bled on Monday. "I ...
The European Parliament delayed Orbán's speech to open the Hungarian presidency to as late as September, which parliament officials claimed was to "focus on nominees for the European Commission". [10] On 15 July 2024, the European Commission announced that several top European Union officials, including European Commission president Ursula von ...
The European Council is composed of the heads of state or government of the EU member states, the President of the European Council, and the President of the European Commission. [1] The representative of each member state depends on its political system.
The President of the European Council is elected by the heads of state/government of the 27 EU member states for a 2.5-year, once renewable term. [ 1 ] The President of the European Commission is officially proposed by the European Council, taking into account the latest European Parliament elections and subsequently elected by the European ...